Ibsen

[ ib-suh n; Norwegian ip-suh n ]

/ ˈɪb sən; Norwegian ˈɪp sən /

noun

Hen·rik

[hen-rik] /ˈhɛn rɪk/, 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet.

Related forms

post-Ib·sen, adjective

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Examples from the Web for ibsen

(Please note that this Master Builder is not known to be related to the Ibsen play by the same name).
The Top 10 Diets of 2013 Are All Useless (Except to Book Publishers)|Kent Sepkowitz|December 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It's always been an ugly impulse; see Ibsen's Enemy of the People for starters.
In Defense of the Defense of Chris Hayes|Michael Tomasky|May 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
April sunshine glints and gleams through all his works, while those of Ibsen, with their sombre seriousness, lie in deep shadow.
Essays on Scandinavian Literature|Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
The great continental leaders of realism—Tolstoi, Zola, Ibsen—have been tainted with a fatal pessimism.
Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism|F. V. N. Painter

Ibsen will live, not as a dramaturgist, but as the greatest professor of dramaturgy the world has ever known.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Thirty years ago it would have been misleading to say, what is undoubtedly true, that it is as an artist that Ibsen is great.
Pot-Boilers|Clive Bell
Ibsen was a stranger, Ibsen was disdainfully silent, therefore Ibsen must be annihilated.
Egoists|James Huneker

British Dictionary definitions for ibsen

Ibsen

/ (ˈɪbsən) /

noun

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

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