He must be read aloud.
He stands for the spoken word, for the iron power of life that may be concentrated in a phrase like the "All or nothing" of Brand.

Though Peer Gynt has its spectacular side, Ibsen generally comes in through the ear alone.

He can be acted in essentials from end to end with one table and four chairs in any parlor.

The alleged punch with which the "movie" culminates has occurred three or ten years before the Ibsen curtain goes up.

At the close of every act of the dramas of this Norwegian one might inscribe on the curtain "This the magnificent moving picture cannot achieve." Likewise after every successful film described in this book could be inscribed "This the trenchant Ibsen cannot do." But a photoplay of Ghosts came to our town.