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Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Johan Ibsen (Norwegian:  ['hnk 'psn] ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century.


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Quote Left Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat. Quote Right
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Quote Left A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no... Quote Right
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Quote Left Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. Quote Right
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Quote Left A forest bird never wants a cage. Quote Right
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Quote Left Our home has been nothing but a play-room. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll-child. And the children have been ... Quote Right
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