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That he was labeled an enemy of the people. Upon reflection, he turned that accusation against himself into the title of still another play. In the wild duck, some of the most severe attacks are directed against the socalled idealists. Though ibsens subjects contemporary corruption in clergy and business, sexual inequality, prudishness and other victorian unmentionables were considered dangerous, his method of presentation was conventional. He used melodramatic devices, usually making quite explicit the division between good characters and bad. To make deceptively simplelooking plays, he wrote...

Are directed against the socalled idealists. Though ibsens subjects contemporary corruption in clergy and business, sexual inequality, prudishness another victorian unmentionables were considered dangerous, his method of presentation was conventional. He used melodramatic devices, usually making quite explicit the division between good characters and bad. To make deceptively simplelooking plays, he wrote what was called the wellmade play, that is, a play so carefully constructed that almost every line and object turned out to have some important use in a latter part of the play. It was said th...

Now, your host, mr. Jose ferrer. Henrik ibsen, the author of the wild duck, was called idealist, skeptic, reformer, even pornographer. Audiences of the 1880s were shocked by topics which wellbred people avoided. In an age which prized gentility, ibsen was scandalously provocative. He would not allow the appearance of respectability to conceal truth. At the same time, he recognized the danger of such revelations. A few years before the wild duck was written, he had aroused so much public hostility against the frankness of his play ghosts that he was labeled an enemy of the people. Upon reflecti...

The Swiss Secretariat for International Finance and Elevandi announced the programme and speaker line-up for the inaugural Point Zero Forum.