Wild Duck
Author: first_name: Henrik
last_name: Ibsen
Language: English
Year: 1890

<i>The Wild Duck</i> (1884) (original Norwegian title: <i>Vildanden</i>) is by many considered Ibsen's finest work, and it is certainly the most complex. It tells the story of Gregers Werle, a young man who returns to his hometown after an extended exile and is reunited with his boyhood friend Hjalmar Ekdal. Over the course of the play, the many secrets that lie behind the Ekdals' apparently happy home are revealed to Gregers, who insists on pursuing the absolute truth, or the "Summons of the Id