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Henrik Johan Ibsen (pronounce [ˈhɛnɾɪk ˈɪpsən]; March 20, 1828–May 23, 1906) was a major Norwegian playwright of realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama." Ibsen is held to be, alongside Knut Hamsun, the greatest of Norwegian authors and one of the most important playwrights of all time, celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians.

Trivia about ibsen

  • This Norwegian was an apothecary's apprentice before becoming "The father of modern drama"
  • This playwright was born in March 1828 in Skien, a small lumbering town of Norway
  • He left Norway in 1864 & wrote nearly all of his major plays abroad
  • John Fletcher wrote "The Wild Goose Chase" & this Norwegian wrote "The Wild Duck"
  • The 1836 bankruptcy of the dad of this "Peer Gynt" author disgraced the family
  • One of this Norwegian playwright's early jobs was serving as theatre poet at the National Theatre in Bergen
  • Popular "Peer Gynt" playwright
  • Collier's Ency. says his 1858 play "The Vikings at Helgeland" was "bad; but...in a new and interesting way"
  • He set his play "The Lady from the Sea" in a small town on a fjord
  • Public disgust over his play "Ghosts" caused this Norwegian to retaliate in his "An Enemy of the People"
  • This Norwegian was in his early 20s when he wrote his first play, "Catalina", in 1850
  • Peer Gynt, the title character of his 1867 play, is based on a legendary Norwegian folk hero
  • This Scandinavian's "John Gabriel Borkman" takes place on a winter night in a snowstorm
  • "Hedda Gabbler"&"An Enemy of the People"
  • Playful Nora Helmer & her banker husband Torvald live in this author's "Doll's House"
  • This playwright's title guy takes on a new troll king in "Trollbusters! The Return of Peer Gynt"
  • In 1882 his play "Ghosts" had its world premiere in Chicago, not in Oslo, but it was presented in Norwegian
  • This Norwegian wrote his play "An Enemy of the People" while living in Rome
  • If you suffer from phasmophobia, you might want to rethink attending an 1881 classic play by this Scandinavian

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