Peer Gynt
Americannoun
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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
I thought of "Peer Gynt" wandering in the high home of the Trolls.
From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Garland, Hamlin
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