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Ib·sen

(ĭb′sən, ĭp′-), Henrik Johan 1828-1906.

Norwegian playwright noted for symbolic verse dramas such as Peer Gynt (1867) and for realist plays such as A Doll's House (1879) and Hedda Gabler (1890).

Ib·sen′i·an (-sē′nē-ən, -sĕn′ē-) adj.

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Ibsen

(ˈɪbsən)

(Biography) Henrik (ˈhɛnrɪk). 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet. After his early verse plays Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867), he began the series of social dramas in prose, including A Doll's House (1879), Ghosts (1881), and The Wild Duck (1886), which have had a profound influence on modern drama. His later plays, such as Hedda Gabler (1890) and The Master Builder (1892), are more symbolic

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Ib•sen

(ˈɪb sən)

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Henrik, 1828–1906, Norwegian playwright.

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Ibsen - realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)

Henrik Ibsen, Henrik Johan Ibsen

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In Bjornson there is nothing of Ibsen's scornful despair, nothing of his anarchistic contempt, but his art is full of the warmth and color of a poetic soul, with no touch of the icy cynicism which freezes you in the other.

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The play was The Doll's House and the author was Henrik Ibsen.

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Some days after the vision of the hotel by night she was sitting alone, sunk in an arm-chair, reading a brightly-covered red volume lettered on the back Works of Henrik Ibsen .

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Henry Sweet, then a young man, lacked their sweetness of character: he was about as conciliatory to conventional mortals as Ibsen or Samuel Butler.

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"One can but see," he remarked, adding, "as Ibsen says,

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It is not that Ibsen's influence on Williams has been entirely ignored.

Remembering Ibsen in Tennessee Williams

His work may be more than 100 years old, but director Emma Lucia is more than happy to be breathing new life into Norwegian playwright Ibsen's work.

Battle of the sexes; Courting controversy when it was first staged more than a century ago, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House has been revived for the Welsh stage. Director Emma Lucia tells Karen Price why the play still packs a punch all these years later

The centenary of Ibsen's death was widely commemorated in 2006.

Global Ibsen. Performing multiple modernities

Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of modern drama" and his plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when Victorian values of family life and propriety largely held sway in Europe.