A major biography of Henrik Ibsen--one of the most important figures in modern drama--evoked through a biographical reading of his plays "An exhaustive examination of Ibsen's life and work by a major scholar of Scandinavian literature, Ibsen's Kingdom is the fullest analysis of Ibsen as a 'poet of paradoxes.'"--Joan Templeton, author of Ibsen's Women "[An] exemplary biography of the so-called Norwegian...