Emperor and Galillean by Henrik Ibsen
Jonathan Kent on why his new production of Ibsen's play about a Roman emperor's struggle with his faith is so timelyAt several points in his life, Henrik Ibsen described Emperor and Galilean, the vast historical drama that he wrote in Germany between 1868 and 1873, as his "main work" or most important play. It's astonishing, therefore, that it's so little known, and even more remarkable that it has never been staged …