Henrik Johan Ibsen (Norwegian: ['hnk 'psn] ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. 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, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul. Go to Quote / Comment
Our home has been nothing but a play-room. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll-child. And the children have been ... Go to Quote / Comment
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. Go to Quote / Comment
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society. Go to Quote / Comment
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority Go to Quote / Comment