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Ibsen’s Kingdom: The Man and His Works by Evert Sprinchorn
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Ibsen’s Kingdom: The Man and His Works by Evert Sprinchorn

By Timothy Sandefur

May 14, 2021
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.

688 pp. $45 (hardcover).

Author’s note: This review contains spoilers for Henrik Ibsen’s Brand, A Doll’s House, and Ghosts.

A Henrik Ibsen play has the power to haunt an audience long after the curtain has fallen, as if an explosion of intelligence continues to reverberate through the hallways of the theater. A geniu…

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