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Marichen Altenburg (married Ibsen), far right, with parents and relatives. Henrik Ibsen's ancestry has been a much studied subject, due to his perceived foreignness [1] (leading his biographer Henrik Jæger to famously state that "the ancestral Ibsen was a Dane") [2] and due to the influence of his biography and family on his plays.
Henrik Johan Ibsen (/ ˈ ɪ b s ən /; [1] Norwegian: [ˈhɛ̀nrɪk ˈɪ̀psn̩]; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director.Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama."
Realism was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century. 19th-century realism is closely connected to the development of modern drama, which "is usually said to have begun in the early 1870s" with the "middle-period" work of the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen ...
The problem play is a form of drama that emerged during the 19th century as part of the wider movement of realism in the arts, especially following the innovations of Henrik Ibsen. It deals with contentious social issues through debates between the characters on stage, who typically represent conflicting points of view within a realistic social ...
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A Man There Was (Swedish: Terje Vigen) is a 1917 silent Swedish drama co-written and directed by Victor Sjöström, [1] based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen.With a budget of SEK 60,000, it was the most expensive Swedish film made up to that point, [2] marking a new direction in Swedish cinema with more funding to fewer films, resulting in better overall quality.
A Doll's House is a 1992 videotaped television production of the 1879 play of the same name by Henrik Ibsen. It was directed by David Thacker and first broadcast on BBC 2 on 21 November 1992, and was later shown on PBS's Masterpiece in the United States.
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