Ibsen

[ ib-suhn; Norwegian ip-suhn ]

noun

1. Hen·rik [hen, -rik], 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet.

Ibsen

/ ˈɪbsən /

noun

1. IbsenHenrik18281906MNorwegianTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: poet Henrik (ˈhɛnrɪk). 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet. After his early verse plays Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867), he began the series of social dramas in prose, including A Doll's House (1879), Ghosts (1881), and The Wild Duck (1886), which have had a profound influence on modern drama. His later plays, such as Hedda Gabler (1890) and The Master Builder (1892), are more symbolic

Other Words From

• post-Ibsen adjective

Example Sentences

Icke has reworked Ibsen’s oracular 1882 play, about a whistleblower in a Scandinavian town dependent for economic survival on a spa whose waters he knows to be contaminated.

From Washington Post

By 2010, Hunter was directing a well received revival of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at Access Theatre on Broadway.

From The Daily Beast

(Please note that this Master Builder is not known to be related to the Ibsen play by the same name).

From The Daily Beast

The playwright Jon Fosse could avoid the curse of Henrik Ibsen to become a Norwegian dramatist Nobel laureate.

From The Daily Beast

It's always been an ugly impulse; see Ibsen's Enemy of the People for starters.

From The Daily Beast

The friend I phoned is Ryan Ibsen, who is the Wine Director at Pasanella & Son, Vitners, on South Street in New York City.

From The Daily Beast

Ibsen will live, not as a dramaturgist, but as the greatest professor of dramaturgy the world has ever known.

From Project Gutenberg

But Miss Lewis likes it; she's been reading Ibsen, and she wants to do a 'drama of ideas', and all that sort of thing, you know.

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Their defeat had so discouraging an effect that Prussia abandoned the Ibsen struggle in their behalf.

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The first of these four pamphlets was entitled “Ghosts,” a title borrowed from Ibsen.

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That settled it with her—she said she wouldn't try to be Benevolent any more—so she joined an Ibsen Club.

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