Indeed - and more recent incarnations of the genre, if well done, are more likely to supplant the original as influences, simply because they address more contemporary, less settled issues.
Hmm, but that is criticising bourgeois behaviour in the name of bourgeois and/or Christian values, no? Whereas Ibsen criticises the values themselves…. Of course, this dichotomy is too simple, and tags like "bourgeois values" are shortcut descriptions of a moral world with as much complexity and contradictions as the present day's….
