John Gabriel Borkman

The play is based on an incident that Ibsen recorded from an earlier period
in his life, the attempted suicide of an army officer who had been accused of
embezzlement. The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the
imprisonment of John Gabriel who used his position as a bank manager to
illegally speculate with his investors' money. The action of the play takes
place eight years after Borkman's release when John Gabriel Borkman, Mrs.
Borkman, and her twin sister Ella Rentheim battle over the future of young
Erhart Borkman. Though John Gabriel Borkman continues the line of
naturalism and social commentary that marks Ibsen's middle period, the final act
suggests a new phase for the playwright, a phase brought to fruition in his
final more symbolic work When We Dead Awaken.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.