Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Pretenders, and Two Other Plays
Tm; three plays translated in the present-volume illustrate three very different and characteristic phases of lbsen's genius. The stirring historical drama, The Pretenders, which appeared in 1864 and was his first really reat achievement, was written at white heat when bsen was five-andothirty and his intellectual powers were just touching their full devebpment. Pillars of Society, which was completed in 1877, was the earliest of the social dramas on which his fame will always mainly rest, and betrays some signs of experiment. In it the dramatist has not yet quite found his feet on the ouad which he trod with the triumphant assurance o a master b the time Reamer: holm, which is typical of power at its highest, appeared in 1886.
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