Ibsen
Hen·rik [hen-rik], /ˈhɛn rɪk/, 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet.
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How to use Ibsen in a sentence
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.
By 2010, Hunter was directing a well received revival of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at Access Theatre on Broadway.
(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 | THE DAILY BEASTThe playwright Jon Fosse could avoid the curse of Henrik Ibsen to become a Norwegian dramatist Nobel laureate.
Nobel Literature Prize Favorites for Dummies, According to the Bookies | Jimmy So | October 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt's always been an ugly impulse; see Ibsen's Enemy of the People for starters.
The friend I phoned is Ryan Ibsen, who is the Wine Director at Pasanella & Son, Vitners, on South Street in New York City.
Ibsen will live, not as a dramaturgist, but as the greatest professor of dramaturgy the world has ever known.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonBut 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.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairTheir defeat had so discouraging an effect that Prussia abandoned the Ibsen struggle in their behalf.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin EmersonThe first of these four pamphlets was entitled “Ghosts,” a title borrowed from Ibsen.
The Evolution of Sinn Fein | Robert Mitchell HenryThat settled it with her—she said she wouldn't try to be Benevolent any more—so she joined an Ibsen Club.
Fables in Slang | George Ade
British Dictionary definitions for Ibsen
/ (ˈɪbsən) /
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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