" In a speech given to the Norwegian Women's Rights League in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he " must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement ," since he wrote " without any conscious thought of making propaganda ," his task having been " the description of humanity.

Ibsen wrote A Doll's House at the point when Laura Kieler had been committed to the asylum, and the fate of this friend of the family shook him deeply, perhaps also because Laura had asked him to intervene at a crucial point in the scandal, which he did not feel able or willing to do.

John Beverley Robinson wrote an essay called " Egoism " in which he states that " Modern egoism, as propounded by Stirner and Nietzsche, and expounded by Ibsen, Shaw and others, is all these ; but it is more.

* 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.

During the years 1890 – 1893 when he was most engaged with the theatre, James wrote a good deal of theatrical criticism and assisted Elizabeth Robins and others in translating and producing Henrik Ibsen for the first time on the London stage.

* Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ), playwright, wrote his first drama, Catalina in Grimstad

Conradi, Kjerulf and Reissiger wrote choral music with texts by Norwegian writers like Ibsen or Bjørnson, who in turn wrote with the intension that their texts could be easily added music.

On the subject of the title, Ibsen wrote: " My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father's daughter than her husband's wife.

He wrote an excellent book on Poland ( 1888 ; English translation, 1903 ), and was one of the editors of the German version of Ibsen.

Ibsen wrote it in response to the public outcry against his play Ghosts, which at that time was considered scandalous.

Upon completion of the play, Ibsen wrote to his publisher in Copenhagen: " I am still uncertain as to whether I should call it a comedy or a straight drama.

With this scene, Ibsen wrote Rondane into one of the 19th centuries better-known plays and made Rondane a symbol for Norway.

On 5 January 1867 Ibsen wrote to Frederik Hegel, his publisher, with his plan for the play: it would be " a long dramatic poem, having as its principal a part-legendary, part-fictional character from Norwegian folklore during recent times.

The portrayal of the Gynt family is known to be based on Henrik Ibsen's own family and childhood memories ; in a letter to Georg Brandes, Ibsen wrote that his own family and childhood had served " as some kind of model " for the Gynt family.

In 1863, around the time that playwrights like Henrik Ibsen were abandoning the 5-act structure and experimenting with 3 and 4-act plays, the German playwright and novelist Gustav Freytag wrote Die Technik des Dramas, a definitive study of the 5-act dramatic structure, in which he laid out what has come to be known as Freytag's pyramid.

The Master Builder was the first work Ibsen wrote upon his return to Norway from Europe in July 1891.

" The play aroused a storm of hostility ," Ibsen wrote in its preface three years later, " more violent and more widespread than most books could boast of having evoked in a community the vast majority of whose members commonly regard matters of literature as being of small concern.

Henrik Ibsen wrote a poem in the hall's honor, and poet Henrik Wergeland first used the name Haakons hall in one of his poems.

He wrote several biographies ; his works on Johan Sverdrup and Henrik Ibsen spanned several volumes each.

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

* 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

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

As she matured, she demonstrated a strong affinity for the plays of Henrik Ibsen, as Irene in When We Dead Awaken ( Cambridge, 1968 ), as Mrs. Alving in Ghosts ( Edinburgh, 1972 ), Aase in Peer Gynt ( BBC, 1972 ) and as Gunhild in John Gabriel Borkman ( Old Vic, 1975 ), in which she appeared with Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft.

In November 2010, West performed a new English translation of Grieg's complete incidental music to Ibsen ’ s play Peer Gynt with Southampton Philharmonic Choir at Southampton Guildhall.

* Peer Gynt, a play ; and character by Henrik Ibsen

* Peer Gynt ( with Stephan Muller ), based upon the play by Henrik Ibsen ; New York: Playscripts, Inc., 2006.

* Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg was composed as incidental music to an Ibsen play but is often performed on its own

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen lived on the island for a short period, and is said to have finished Peer Gynt there in 1867.

Among his most important productions in Hamburg are plays by Anton Chekhov ( Platonov, 1989 ; Uncle Vanya, 1995 ; Three Sisters, 1999 ), Henrik Ibsen ( Peer Gynt, 1985 ; The Wild Duck, 1994 ), Arthur Schnitzler ( Liebelei, 1988 ; Das weite Land, 1995 ) and William Shakespeare ( Hamlet, 1986 ; King Lear, 1992 ; As You Like It, 1998 ).

Dovregubben and his court are described in detail in Ibsen ’ s “ Peer Gynt .” After the integration of Christianity into Scandinavian folklore, trolls developed a hatred of church-bells and the smell of Christians.

* Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen ( 12 colour plates, 38 line, 1936 )

Probably the best-known work is Peer Gynt ( 1867 ), a play by Henrik Ibsen, which is partly set in Rondane:

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, writer and gatherer of Norwegian folk tales in the mid-19th century, collected many stories connected with Rondane, including Peer Gynt, the story that inspired Ibsen.

Peer Gynt (; ) is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, loosely based on the fairy tale Per Gynt.

" Despite this defense of his poetic achievement in Peer Gynt, the play was his last to employ verse ; from The League of Youth ( 1869 ) onwards, Ibsen was to write drama only in prose.

" Ibsen sent the three acts to his publisher on 8 August, with a letter that explains that " Peer Gynt was a real person who lived in Gudbrandsdal, probably around the end of the last century or the beginning of this.

In a letter to Peter Hansen, Ibsen confirmed that the character Åse, Peer Gynt's mother, was based on his own mother, Marichen Altenburg.

Thus, the character Peer Gynt could be interpreted as being an ironic representation of Henrik Ibsen himself.

In 2006, as part of the Norwegian Ibsen anniversary festival, Peer Gynt was set at the foot of the Great Sphinx of Giza near Cairo, Egypt ( an important location in the original play ).

At Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen, Henrik Ibsen and Peer Gynt have been celebrated with an annual festival since 1928.

The play is staged in the same surroundings in which Ibsen claims he found inspiration for the character Peer Gynt, and is regarded by many as the definitive version.

Created in honour of Henrik Ibsen, it is a monumental presentation of Peer Gynt, scene by scene.

" Peer Gynts letzte Nacht: Eschatologische Medialität und Zeitdehnung bei Henrik Ibsen ".