Of the three plays in this volume,GhostsandA Public Enemyare social dramas of his middle period; and the former, described by one London critic as “an open sewer,” raised the greatest outcry of all Ibsen’s attacks on convention.When We Dead Wake, his last play, handles in a symbolic manner the individual’s inner conflict and, incidentally, provides the dramatist’s own comment on his lifework and his renunciation of work.