From the exhibition
Henrik Ibsen: La satire sociale dans son théâtre
· 1904

This title page announces a lecture on social satire in Henrik Ibsen's dramatic work, delivered by Joseph Hansen at the University Extension of Luxembourg. Published in Luxembourg by Imprimerie Th. Schreill, the document represents the European intellectual engagement with Ibsen's revolutionary theater in the early twentieth century. Ibsen's plays—*A Doll's House*, *Ghosts*, *An Enemy of the People*—used domestic and social realism to expose hypocrisy, class inequality, and sexual oppression. The lecture format itself reflects how Ibsen's work had become subject matter for public discourse and academic study, cementing his role in the tradition of socially conscious art that traced back through nineteenth-century caricaturists and printmakers who wielded satire as a tool for social criticism.
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