Henrik Ibsen

The Pillars of Society Henrik Ibsen

Ibsen first planned a contemporary drama at the end of 1869 but did not begin writing until October 1875 (in Munich), completing it in the summer of 1877. It was first published on 11 October of that year in Copenhagen, with the first stagings following on 14 November at the Odense Teater and on 18 November at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. The first performance in Norway was at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen on 30 November. By this date, the play had been translated into German, in which it was immediately well received.[2] In December 1880 in London it became the first of any of Ibsen's plays to be performed in English (under the title Quicksands).[3]