![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Helen Alving is about to dedicate an orphanage she has built in memory of her late husband. Alving's maid and the purported daughter of Jacob Engstrand, but she is actually the late Captain Alving's illegitimate child Pastor Manders, an old friend of Helen Alving.Ghosts, on the contrary, deals with the consequences of not breaking it." Characters Regular tragedy dealt mainly with the unhappy consequences of breaking the moral code. Theater critic Maurice Valency wrote in 1963, "From the standpoint of modern tragedy Ghosts strikes off in a new direction. Since then the play has fared better, and is considered a “great play” that historically holds a position of “immense importance”. Because of its subject matter, which includes religion, venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia, it immediately generated strong controversy and negative criticism. Like many of Ibsen's plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, in a production by a Danish company on tour. Ghosts ( Norwegian: Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. A performance of Ghosts in Berlin, 1983, with Inge Keller, Ulrich Mühe, and Simone von Zglinicki. ![]()
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