Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts has many influences on modern drama. This play is universal and can be related to in twenty-first century. It is a timeless story about love, incest, venerial desiese, and physical illness. Ibsen wrote the play so that nearly all of his readers could relate to it in everyday life. Henrik Ibsen's influence on modern drama was both thematic and technical. His way of treating serious subjects drove plays of sentiment off the stage. Henrik's technique of "analytic expression" became an addition to nearly every modern dramatist's repertoire. His ideal of economical, uncluttered structure "is not a particular influence on the contemporary playwright, it is the very air he breathes" (M Meyer 458). Ibsen also contributed double-density dialogue through this play. This is when characters say one thing and mean another. It is very much like "beating around the bush." It helps people say difficult things without stating them directly.