"One of Ibsen's Great Themes is a Radical Misery, a Deep Inhibition of Pleasure" (Michael Goldman).
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"One of Ibsen's Great Themes is a Radical Misery, a Deep Inhibition of Pleasure" (Michael Goldman). Consider the Representation of Repression in Two or More Plays.
Both Russian writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) and Norway's Henrik Ibsen (1828-1904) grew up in families whose position in society was constantly under threat. Ibsen's father, a merchant by trade, was ruined when Ibsen was only six years old, plunging the family into poverty. Ibsen later qualified as an apothecary
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