Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen
1881 · Norwegian accent
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About Ghosts
Ghosts is Ibsen's most controversial play — so shocking when first published in 1881 that it was initially banned across Scandinavia and most of Europe. Mrs Alving has spent her life maintaining the respectable image of her late husband, despite knowing his true dissolute nature. When the sins of the father begin to appear in the son, the carefully constructed lies collapse.
Ibsen tackles syphilis, incest, euthanasia, and the destruction caused by living a lie — all within the confines of a single Norwegian drawing room. The play was condemned as obscene, nihilistic and an attack on morality. Today it is recognised as one of the supreme masterpieces of world drama: a work of devastating moral clarity that changed the course of theatre history.
Listen free to Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen — the most controversial play of the nineteenth century, read with a Norwegian accent.