Henrik Ibsen/Ivo De Figueiredo

The Norwegian playwright behind such pivotal theatrical works as }Hedda Gabler{ and }Peer Gynt{ proves to have been sensitive, testy, difficult and prudish in life, directly in contrast to his liberated, empathetic and taboo-foregrounding work in this analysis of the connection between the man and the art from fellow-Norwegian Ivo De Figueiredo.