Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE. THE THIRD KINGDOM
7. A Contrary Spirit 9
8. A Divided Soul 16
9. The Apprentice 31
10. The Failure 41
11. God’s Stepchild 54
12. Purity of Heart 64
13. Peer Gynt 81
14. Peer Gynt Meets Hegel 92
15. Falling Out with Bjørnson 102
16. Falling In with Brandes 111
17. The League of Youth 122
18. Particular Interests 135
19. Old Debts Repaid 143
20. Ibsen in Command 155
21. Those Little Devils 171
22. Anti-Brand 179
23. The Prudent Revolutionary 189
24. Emperor and Galilean 199
25. Ibsen the Mystic 214
26. Julian as Ibsen 220
27. Concordance of Opposites 227
28. Another Triumph 235
29. PART TWO. THE DIVIDED KINGDOM
30. Changing Times 243
31. The Problem Play 256
32. Pillars of Society 261
33. The Road to A Doll’s House 268
34. The Women Behind the Play 275
35. The Well-Made Play Transformed 284
36. The Ghosts at Rosenvold 295
37. Syphilis, the Unmentionable Disease 307
38. Public Enemy 320
39. The Slain Pegasus 334
40. The Wild Duck 345
41. The Past Recaptured 359
42. The Depths of the Sea 369
43. A Visit to Norway 382
44. Rosmersholm 395
45. After Rosmersholm 412
46. The Lady from the Sea 423
47. The Immoralists 438
48. The Unspoken Hedda 456
49. PART THREE LOST KINGDOM
50. World Fame 473
51. New Directions 485
52. Who Is Hilda? 490
53. The Story of Solness 501
54. The Man Behind the Mask 505
55. The Return of Nora 508
56. Solness as Superman 514
57. Conquering France 516
58. Little Eyolf 522
59. John Gabriel Borkman 535
60. Foldal and Hinkel 545
61. Seventieth-Birthday Celebrations 557
62. A Dramatic Epilogue 564
63. The Last Years 575
64. Notes 581
65. Bibliography 631
66. Credits 647
67. Index 649