Who is Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (; Norwegian: [ˈhɛ̀nrɪk ˈɪ̀psn̩]; 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. Ibsen 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...
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Henrik Johan Ibsen Poems

• With A Water-lily
  SEE, dear, what thy lover brings;
  'Tis the flower with the white wings.
  Buoyed upon the quiet stream
  In the spring it lay adream. ...
• The Miner
  Beetling rock, with roar and smoke
  Break before my hammer-stroke!
  Deeper I must thrust and lower
  Till I hear the ring of ore. ...
• Gone
  THE last, late guest
  To the gate we followed;
  Goodbye -- and the rest
  The night-wind swallowed. ...
• Wildflowers And Hot-house Plants
  'GOOD Heavens, man, what a freak of taste!
  What blindness to form and feature!
  The girl's no beauty, and might be placed
  As a hoydenish kind of creature.' ...
• A Brother In Need
  NOW, rallying once if ne'er again,
  With flag at half-mast flown,
  A people in dire need and strain
  Mans Tyra's bastion. ...

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• Titokgh: without it the great doctrine of man's moral responsibility would be mere lie and deception. freedom is a sacred thing and the love of freedom is deeply rooted in our hearts. do you love your country? good, then keep in mind the words of [henrik johan] ibsen: "though thou wouldst
• Kirsti_sandgren: dolls house, henrik ibsen ( playwriter, most famous norw. before jon fosse). nora leaves her husband and children. looked upon as a feminist teaterperformance. ref. journalist johan’s youngest child nora. u ask cuz of 9/11.
• Kirsti_sandgren: are you familiar with: the names of my former friend, tone, and her husband, johan, ideas for names to the children, if not, they are: aksel as in the royal friend, Åsne as in my uncles second wife and nora from henrik ibsen´s teaterplay, a dolls house.
• Luke_goss5: “don’t use that exotic word ‘ideals’. we have a good enough native word: ‘lies’.” -henrik johan ibsen-
• Raybert761: “ i don’t think you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all over the world.” henrik johan ibsen 1828 - 1906 nothing has changed

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