Henrik Ibsen and his Women
Ibsen Santos Theatre History II Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen and his Women Henrik Ibsen was a very successful playwright, he is know for his realistic plays, changing the melodramatic period into realism. ... His views on feminism were really strong awakening the women of the time to fight for their rights on stage as in the real world. Camilla Collet a was a friend of Ibsen and his wife Suzannah, she helped Ibsen with dialogs for his plays dealing with contemporary feminist movement. When feminism had become one of the main topics of the day Collet and Suzannah “urged Ibsen to take the feminist cause directly, and Pillars of Society owes much to the conversation in the Ibsen household”(Ibsen’s Women pg.