Of the three plays in this volume, Ghosts and A Public Enemy are social dramas of his middle period; and the former, described by one London critic as an open sewer, raised the greatest outcry of all Ibsens attacks on convention. When We Dead Wake , his last play, handles in a symbolic manner the individuals inner conflict and, incidentally, provides the dramatists own Of the three plays in this volume, Ghosts and A Public Enemy are social dramas of his middle period; and the former, described by one London critic as an open sewer, raised the greatest outcry of all Ibsens attacks on convention. When We Dead Wake , his last play, handles in a symbolic manner the individuals inner conflict and, incidentally, provides the dramatists own comment on his lifework and his renunciation of work.