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Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, [3] [4] and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006. [ 5 ] Ibsen was born into the merchant elite of the port town of Skien , and had strong family ties to the families who had held power and wealth in Telemark since the mid-1500s. [ 6 ]
In his biography of Ibsen, Edmund Gosse indicates: "He was perhaps momentarily saved by the publication of Terje Vigen, which enjoyed a solid popularity. This is the principal and, indeed, almost the only instance in Ibsen's works of what the Northern critics call "epic," but what we less ambitiously know as the tale in verse.
The Master Builder was the first work Ibsen wrote upon his return to Norway in July 1891 after many years spent elsewhere in Europe. It is usually grouped with Ibsen's other works written during this late period of Ibsen's life such as Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, When We Dead Awaken, and Hedda Gabler. Early reactions to the play by ...
Peer Gynt (/ p ɪər ˈ ɡ ɪ n t /, Norwegian: [peːr ˈjʏnt,-ˈɡʏnt]) [a] is a five-act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays. Peer Gynt chronicles the journey of its title character from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert and ...
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Hedda Gabler (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈhɛ̂dːɑ ˈɡɑ̀ːblər]) is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The world premiere was staged on 31 January 1891 at the Residenztheater in Munich. Ibsen himself was in attendance, although he remained back-stage. [1]
The League of Youth (Norwegian: De unges Forbund) is a play by Henrik Ibsen finished in early May 1869. [1] It was Ibsen's first play in colloquial prose and marks a turning point in his style towards realism and away from verse. [1] It was widely considered Ibsen's most popular play in nineteenth-century Norway. [2]
Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works is a book about Henrik Ibsen and his works by Evert M. Sprinchorn (1923–2022), an American Scandinavian literature scholar. It was published by Yale University Press in 2021 when Sprinchorn was 98. It is described as a biography and more specifically as a biographical reading of Ibsen's plays. [1]