Key facts
- Written by
- Henrik Ibsen
- Characters
- Mrs. Helen Alving Oswald Alving Pastor Manders Jacob Engstrand Regina Engstrand
- Date premiered
- 20 May 1882 ( 1882-05-20 )
- Place premiered
- Aurora Turner Hall in Chicago , Illinois
- Original language
- Danish
- Subject
- Morality
- Genre
- Naturalistic / realistic problem play
- Setting
- The country home of the Alving family beside one of the large fjords in Western Norway
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Encyclopedic overview
Ghosts (Danish: Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in Danish and published in 1881, and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, US, performed in Danish.
Like many of Ibsen's plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. Because of its subject matter, which includes religion, venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia, it immediately generated strong controversy and adverse criticism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ghosts” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.