At the end of a play by this author, one character responds to the question "What is your destiny" with the phrase "To be the thirteenth at table." One of his characters manifests "hope flashing across his mind" by asking "Th
At the end of a play by this author, one character responds to the question "What is your destiny" with the phrase "To be the thirteenth at table." One of his characters manifests "hope flashing across his mind" by asking "The most wonderful thing of all--?" This author wrote about a man afflicted with photography's "life-lie", and about a "little skylark" who forges a signature. A "beautiful death" is planned by another of his characters when she burns a manuscript. One of this man's protagonists slams the door on Torvald, who promptly yells "Nora! Nora!" For 10 points, name this Norwegian author of The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, and A Doll's House.   
At the end of a play by this author, one character responds to the question "What is your destiny" with the phrase "To be the thirteenth at table.
Henrik Ibsen