(Please note that this Master Builder is not known to be related to the Ibsen play by the same name).
It's always been an ugly impulse; see Ibsen's Enemy of the People for starters.
And do you spend all your time writing Ibsen criticisms of Ibsen plays?
That was what the man in Ibsen said, when he had lost his wits.
He writes blank verse tragedies and discusses Ibsen with his landlady.
To Ibsen's free soul the morality of slaves was a nightmare.
The most severe critic of Ibsen and his art was Ibsen himself.
For instance, my father, do you think he could read Ibsen or any of the others?
Writers so opposite as Ibsen and Anatole France have expanded her themes.
I am taking him at his word; but Ibsen is a man who must be taken at his word.