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Norwegian. An Enemy of the People (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende ), an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, followed his previous play, Ghosts, which criticized the hypocrisy of his society's moral code. That response included accusations of both Ghosts and its author being "scandalous," "degenerate," and "immoral." [1]
- 1883
- Norwegian
- En folkefiende
- Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People Summary. Next. Act I. The play opens in the evening in a small Norwegian town, as various friends and townspeople drop in to visit the local doctor, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, and his wife, Katherine. Billing and Hovstad, the editors of the liberal newspaper the People’s Messenger, are already there eating when Peter ...
Mar 18, 2024 · That’s the fundamental question posed by Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” — and, in highly dramatic fashion, by the preview I attended of its latest Broadway revival. At that ...
An Enemy of the People is a play published in 1882 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It tells the story of Dr. Thomas Stockmann, who discovers that the water in the public baths of his small Norwegian town is contaminated. When he tries to publicize his findings, he is met with resistance and hostility from the townspeople, who are more ...
May 1, 2019 · You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: An Enemy of the People Author: Henrik Ibsen Translator: R. Farquharson Sharp Release Date: December, 2000 [EBook #2446] Last updated: May 1, 2019 Language: English Character set encoding: UTF ...
An Enemy of the People, five-act drama by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1882 as En folkefiende and performed in 1883. An Enemy of the People concerns the actions of Doctor Thomas Stockmann, a medical officer charged with inspecting the public baths on which the prosperity of his native town depends. He finds the water to be contaminated.
Brand, one of Ibsen’s first plays to gain major recognition, tells the story of a preacher whose obsession with moral purity eventually turns him into a monster; similarly to An Enemy of the People, it shows how a well-intentioned pursuit of ideals can go horribly awry.
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