Scandinavian Realist Plays

Realist plays by Henrik Ibsen of Norway, which turned the stage to the lives of women and families in modern society. A play belongs here when the cited article names Ibsen as the playwright. The two plays were first staged in the later nineteenth century and brought plain speech, domestic rooms and social questions into the theatre. Each centers on a woman who cannot accept the role that her household and society have fixed for her. It excludes the plays of other Scandinavian writers and the earlier romantic dramas of the region.