Part of Anne Haight's List of Banned Books. The title of the play in Danish is Gengangere, which could be more accurately translated as 'ones who return' it has a double meaning of both 'ghosts' and 'events that repeat themselves', so the English title Ghosts is rather inadequate. A critical commentary on 19th-century morality, the play immediately generated strong controversy and negative criticism because of its subject matters, which includes religion, venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia. After a tragedy concerning the orphanage, Helen is left having to make a very difficult decision regarding Oswald. As the play goes on, she discovers that her son Oswald has syphilis and that he has fallen in love with who Helen believes to be his half-sister. It tells the story of Helen Alving, a woman who is about to open an orphanage which she has dedicated to her late husband, despite the fact that while he was alive, he was unfaithful to her. Ghosts is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, first written in 1881 and first performed in 1882 in Chicago. Ghosts Henrik IbsenĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle (mobi and AZW3) ebook formats. Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15.
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