For many years, the Swedish Academy interpreted " ideal " as " idealistic " () and used it as a reason not to give the prize to important but less Romantic authors, such as Henrik Ibsen and Leo Tolstoy.

A Doll's House (; also translated as A Doll House ) is a three-act play in prose by the playwright Henrik Ibsen.

Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy.

Category: Plays by Henrik Ibsen

) The notion of mountain-habiting draug is present in the poetic works of Henrik Ibsen ( Peer Gynt ), and Aasmund Olavsson Vinje.

He took the pseudonym " Brand " from a fictional character in one of Henrik Ibsen ´ s plays.

He often used a historical background for his plays-among his influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and George Bernard Shaw.

The composer Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 83 ) ( Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1853 – 70 ) and playwright Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ) were prominent in their critiques of contemporary civilization and for warnings that accelerating " progress " would lead to the creation of individuals detached from social values and isolated from their fellow men.

In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas, Wilde's drawing-room comedies, Symbolism, and proto-Expressionism in the late works of August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen.

* Henrik Ibsen releases A Doll's House in 1879

* March 20 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright ( d. 1906 )

* May 23 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright ( b. 1828 )

* February 24 – Premiere of first stage production of the verse-play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Oslo ( then called Christiania ), Norway

* Henrik Ibsen ( while living in Italy ) publishes his masterpiece, A Doll ’ s House.

Henrik Ibsen frequently spent his vacations at the mansion Moldegård, visiting the family Møller, and Alexander Kielland resided in the city as the governor of Romsdals amt.

He joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà, for a successful Peer Gynt ( by Henrik Ibsen ).

* At least two major dramatists have written tragedies about Catilina: Ben Jonson, the English Jacobean playwright, wrote Catiline His Conspiracy in 1611 ; Catiline was the first play by the Norwegian ' father of modern drama ' Henrik Ibsen, written in 1850.

The Royal line died out and the country entered into two unequal unions from 1396 until 1814 ; this period was called " the 400-year-night " by Henrik Ibsen during the national romantic period as Norwegian national awareness was rediscovered in the 19th century.

The dramatist Henrik Wergeland was the most influential author of the period while the later works of Henrik Ibsen were to earn Norway a place in Western European literature.

By the late 19th century, in a flood of nationalistic romanticism, the great four emerged, Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander Kielland, and Jonas Lie.

Although a strong contributor to early Norwegian romanticism, Henrik Ibsen is perhaps best known as an influential Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the popularity of modern realistic drama in Europe, with plays like The Wild Duck and A Doll's House.

In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award for her " outstanding work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsen's works over the last decades.

His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg.

Biographers and critics have identified Henrik Ibsen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Honoré de Balzac, and Ivan Turgenev as important influences.

The Norwegian Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ) also travelled to Copenhagen where he produced numerous plays such as A Doll ’ s House ( 1879 ).

The New Woman pushed the limits set by male-dominated society, especially as modeled in the plays of Norwegian Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ).

* 1866 – Henrik Sillem, Dutch sports shooter ( d. 1907 )

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto ( February 3 1898, Kuortane – May 11 1976, Helsinki ) was a Finnish architect and designer.

To start the 2007 – 08 campaign, Henrik Zetterberg recorded at least a point in each of Detroit's first 16 games, setting a club record.

* 1879 – World première of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.

* 1895 – Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1976 )

* 1808 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian poet, playwright, and linguist ( d. 1845 )

* 1857 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1943 )

* 1881 – Henrik Shipstead, American politician ( d. 1960 )

* 1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.

* 1773 – Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher ( d. 1845 )

* 1982 – Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player

* 1948 – Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician

* 1855 – Henrik Schück, Swedish literary historian ( d. 1947 )

* 1967 – Henrik Brockmann, Danish heavy metal singer

Niels Henrik Abel ( 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829 ) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation by radicals.

* 1961 – Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner

* 1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player

* April 25 – Thieves steal the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark ( Henrik Bruun confesses in 1997 ).

* Literature – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan

* April 3 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and dramatist ( b. 1890 )

* August 21 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1857 )