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.

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

She continued to act in the theatre for most of her career, and became noted for her portrayal of Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, but became wider known once she started to work with eminent Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman.

Gordon continued to act on the stage throughout the 1930s, including notable runs as Mattie in Ethan Frome, Margery Pinchwife in William Wycherley's Restoration comedy The Country Wife at London's Old Vic and on Broadway, and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at Central City, Colorado, and on Broadway.

Comden and Green's biggest failure was 1982's A Doll's Life, an attempt to figure out what Nora did after she abandoned her husband in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, which ran for only five performances, although they received Tony Award nominations for its book and score.

In Henrik Ibsen's play " A Doll's House ," Dr. Rank suffers from " consumption of the spine.

* Henrik Ibsen-A Doll's House

It is, for example, a key image in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.

* A performance of the tarantella was central to the plot of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House.

In drama, the late nineteenth century saw such " New Woman " plays as Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House ( 1879 ) and Hedda Gabler ( 1890 ), Henry Arthur Jones's play The Case of Rebellious Susan ( 1894 ) and George Bernard Shaw's controversial Mrs. Warren's Profession ( 1893 ) and Candida ( 1898 ).

Determined to bounce back, he started working on a new musical A Doll's Life with lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green that would continue the story of Nora Helmer past what Henrik Ibsen had written in A Doll's House.

He also appeared with Harris in the 1958 TV adaptation of Johnny Belinda and played Torvald Helmer to Harris ' Nora in a television version of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House ( 1959 ).

He also translated, alone or in collaboration, other productions of the Scandinavian stage: Ibsen's A Doll's House ( 1889 ), The Master Builder ( 1893, with Edmund Gosse ); Edvard Brandes's A Visit ( 1892 ); Ibsen's Peer Gynt ( 1892, with Charles Archer ); Little Eyolf ( 1895 ); and John Gabriel Borkman ( 1897 ); and he edited Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas vols., 1890 – 1891 ).

* A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

The public reaction to the novel was similar to the protests which greeted the publication and performance of Henrik Ibsen's landmark drama A Doll's House ( 1879 ), a work with which The Awakening shares an almost identical theme.

* Nora, from Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House

In his old age, Jones remarked that A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen should have ended with Helmer ' pouring himself a stiff glass of whisky and water and lifting it reverently toward Heaven exclaiming " Thank God I'm well rid of her "' ( Quoted in Anthony Jenkins, The Making of Victorian Drama, 1991, Page 278 )

* Torvold Helmer, the overbearing husband of Nora Helmer in an 1981 rendition of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in Stratford, England-S. W. E. T.

In 1996, McTeer garnered critical acclaim-and both the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award and Critics ' Circle Theatre Award for her performance as Nora in a West End production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.

Fitzgerald ’ s most recent role has been in the West End production of The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre with Damian Lewis and Keira Knightley, and in Henrik Ibsen ’ s A Doll's House at the Donmar Warehouse.