'Enemy of the People' review: Fine Ibsen

They didn't have our word for whistle-blower when Henrik Ibsen wrote "The Enemy of the People" in 1882. As this jagged fist of a revival proves with such ripping theatricality, however, just such a moral crusader -- bristling with noble idealism and, inevitably, tragicomic human frailties -- was very much a part of the psyche, the economy and the hypocrisy of the late 19th century.

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