Ibsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since. The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsen���s long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston ( Peer Gynt , The Wild Duck , and The Master Builder ) and Brian Johnston and Rick Davis ( A Doll House and Hedda Gabler ). The translation of Peer Gynt appears for the first time in this Norton Critical Edition. ���Backgrounds��� gives students an understanding of Ibsen���s creative process with selections from his correspondence and other writings. Twenty-seven documents have been collected and arranged by play, with a section of autobiographical writings at the end. Ibsen���s plays continue to provoke diverse commentary. ���Criticism��� includes nineteen of the most important responses to Ibsen���s work, among them essays by Bernard Shaw, Sandra Saari, E. M. Forster, Hugh Kenner, and Joan Templeton. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are