Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen

Ghosts is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, first written in 1881 and first performed in 1882 in Chicago. It tells the story of Helen Alving, a woman who is about to open an orphanage which she has dedicated to her late husband, despite the fact that while he was alive, he was unfaithful to her. As the play goes on, she discovers that her son Oswald has syphilis and that he has fallen in love with who Helen believes to be his half-sister. After a tragedy concerning the orphanage, Helen is left having to make a very difficult decision regarding Oswald.