Indeed, it feels rather like we're reading someone with an axe of their own to grind. I'd like to see a little more justification for this: « For him, the Vic

Indeed, it feels rather like we're reading someone with an axe of their own to grind. I'd like to see a little more justification for this: « For him, the Victorian-era hypocrisy he decried was a manifestation of the power of the mob to stifle the imaginations of the handful of great men and women who were born to leaven the loaf. As he declares in An Enemy of the People: “The majority is never right….The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.” » That seems to me to be a clear-cut case of dishonestly attributing the views of an unsympathetic (at that point in the play) character to the playwright. Further, I think the author may be exaggerating Ibsen's lack of popularity these days (having to write things like « of the later works, only <list of six plays> continue to be widely performed » is a bit of a clue).