I would never have thought I would come across this play again, but I guess Ibsen is more famous than I thought. I read the play before during high school, so I was very familiar with the performance to the point where I recognized nearly all of the lines and their hidden implications. If I never read the play before, I’m positive I wouldn’t have understood or enjoyed it as much as I did then. This is how I feel about Shakespeare plays as well: you can’t really enjoy any of the old, sophisticated plays without firs reading them, though, ironically, the plays themselves are not meant to be written, only to be performed.