Henrik Ibsen
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Born:
Mar 20, 1828

Died:
May 23, 1906

Age: 78 Deceased

From:
Skien, Telemark, Norway

Department:
Writing

Total Credits: 145

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Henrik Ibsen

Also known as: Henrik Johan Ibsen, Henrik Ibsén, Henryk Ibsen, Enric Ibsen, Enrique Ibsen

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Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.

Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt has strong surreal elements. After Peer Gynt Ibsen abandoned verse and wrote in realistic prose. Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's later work examined the realities that lay...

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