The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 07 (of 11)

This volume gathers two realist stage plays paired with editorial introductions, notes, and translations. The first examines a wife's secret act taken to protect her household, whose exposure undermines domestic roles and prompts a decisive break from suffocating expectations. The second follows a family's struggle with the legacy of a deceased head of household, revealing concealed transgressions, a hereditary affliction, and the corrosive effects of social hypocrisy. Together the plays probe duty, truth, personal freedom, and the consequences of secrecy within intimate relationships.