With _The Master Builder_--or _Master Builder Solness_, as the title runs in the original--we enter upon the final stage in Ibsen's career. "You are essentially right," the poet wrote to Count Prozor in March 1900, "when you say that the series which closes with the Epilogue (_When We Dead Awaken_) began with _Master Builder Solness_." "Ibsen," says Dr. Brahm, "wrote in Christiania all the four works which he thus seems to bracket together--_Solness_, _Eyolf_, _Borkman_, and _When We Dead Awaken_. He returned to Norway in July 1891, for a stay of indefinite length; but the restless wanderer over Europe was destined to leave his home no more.... He had not returned, however, to throw himself…
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