" 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.

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.

Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt in deliberate disregard of the limitations that the conventional stagecraft of the 19th century imposed on drama.

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.

A theatrical production of Ibsen ’ s Hedda Gabler by The Opposites Company of the Theatre, in which the title character was presented as “ essentially good ”, in keeping with Siegel ’ s interpretation of the play, was highly praised in Time magazine, but severely criticized in the New York Times, which also published Siegel ’ s response to the critics.

Archer had much to do with introducing Ibsen to the English public by his translation The Pillars of Society, produced at the Gaiety Theatre, London, 1880.

Edwards / McLiammoir Productions presented European plays in sharp contrast to the country kitchen fare available at the Abbey Theatre bringing the Irish Premieres of Ibsen and other such dramatists to the Irish public.

He did not return to acting until 1978 with An Enemy of the People, playing against type as a heavily bearded, bespectacled 19th-century doctor in this adaptation of a Henrik Ibsen play.

He headed the group " Det moderne Gjennembruds Mænd " ( The Men of the Modern Breakthrough ), composed of J. P. Jacobsen, Holger Drachmann, Edvard Brandes, Erik Skram, Sophus Schandorph, and Norwegians Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, but a conservative reaction against his " realistic " doctrines began around 1883, headed by Holger Drachmann.

Ibsen sought to show the gradual development of Mrs. Alving to that point where she reacts against the spiritual conventionality of Manders, and refuses any longer to respect or protect the memory of her husband, whose life was to have such an evil effect upon Oswald's physical and moral character.

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

It was felt by Ibsen's German agent that the original ending would not play well in German theatres ; therefore, for the play's German debut, Ibsen was forced to write an alternative ending for it to be considered acceptable.

Ibsen later called the ending a disgrace to the original play and referred to it as a ' barbaric outrage '.

Ibsen started thinking about the play around May 1878, although he did not begin its first draft until a year later, having reflected on the themes and characters in the intervening period ( he visualised its protagonist, Nora, for instance, as having approached him one day wearing " a blue woolen dress ").

Ibsen sent a fair copy of the completed play to his publisher on 15 September 1879.

" Since the playwright's wishes were not protected by copyright, Ibsen decided to avoid the danger of being re-written by a lesser dramatist by committing what he called a " barbaric outrage " on his play himself and giving it an alternative ending in which Nora did not leave.

In Germany, the production's lead actress refused to play the part of Nora unless Ibsen changed the ending, which, under pressure, he eventually did.

Following several successful revivals ( including Stephen Daldry's 1992 production for the National Theatre ), the play was “ rediscovered ” and hailed as a damning social critique of capitalism and middle-class hypocrisy in the manner of the social realist dramas of Shaw and Ibsen.

The Commonweal, in cooperation with area businesses and organizations, hosts an annual Ibsen Festival celebrating Norwegian art and culture through workshops, lectures, food, and featuring Commonweal's production of an Ibsen play.

* The Pretenders ( play ) ( Norwegian: Kongs-Emnerne ), an 1863 play by Henrik Ibsen

Munch portrayed Haakon as a mighty, almost flawless ruler, which in turn influenced Henrik Ibsen in his 1863 play The Pretenders.

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.

In 1977, he released the Animal Justice EP, notable particularly for the epic " Hedda Gabler ", based very loosely on the Ibsen play.

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

She was later portrayed by Henrik Ibsen in his play Lady Inger of Oestraat.

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

* Norma ( play ), by Henrik Ibsen

Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

A couple of " Mrs Pat "' s later significant performances were as the title role in the 1922 West End production of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler and Mrs. Alving in the " Ibsen Centennial " ( 1928 ) staging of Ghosts ( with John Gielgud as her son Oswald ).

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

An Enemy of the people ( original Norwegian title: En folkefiende ) is an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.