Contents

Preface to The Ibsen Cycle ix

Preface to the First Edition xv

Acknowledgments xix

Abbreviations xxi

Introduction 1

PART I

1. The "Dramatic" Content of Hegel's Philosophy 27

2. The Philosophical Content of Ibsen's Drama 65

3. The Structure of the Cycle 98

PART II

4. Archetypal Repetition in Ghosts 189

5. The Dialectic of Rosmersholm 237

6. Death and Transfiguration in The Master Builder 289

Epilogue: Ibsen and Modernism 353

Appendix 1: Ghosts 376

Appendix 2: Rosmersholm 380

Appendix 3: The Master Builder 390

Selected Bibliography 397

Index 404