Ghosts

Ghosts, a drama in three acts by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1881 in Norwegian as Gengangere and performed the following year. The play is an attack on conventional mo­rality and on the results of hypocrisy. Ostensibly a discussion of congenital venereal disease, Ghosts also deals with the power of ingrained moral con­tamination to undermine the most determined idealism. Although the lecherous Capt...