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Peer Gynt

American  
[peer gint, pair gynt] / ˈpɪər ˈgɪnt, ˈpɛər ˈgünt /

noun

  1. a play (1867) by Henrik Ibsen.


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Like Peer Gynt in search of a greater truth, Oliphant willingly pitted himself against larger-than-life beasts and lived to tell the tale.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2025

The play is a modernised version of the Ibsen classic Peer Gynt.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2019

She received a season high 122.21 points, nonetheless, for the difficult performance set to Peer Gynt.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2014

Grieg once claimed he was unable to listen to In the Hall of the Mountain King from his own incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt, adding that it reeked "of cow turds and super-Norwegianism".

From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2012

But can one read "Brand" or "Peer Gynt" and ask such questions?

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman

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