Ibsen
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- proper noun
- /ˈɪbsən/
- Henrik Ibsen is considered one of the founders of modern drama.
- Henrik Ibsen
- playwright Henrik Ibsen
- Ibsen's plays
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Watch on YouTubeHe opened the way for Munk, and Munk took on Ibsen's characters as alter egos.
- He opened the way for Munk, and Munk took on Ibsen's characters as alter egos.
- And some of these other thinkers as well, like like Chekhov and and Ibsen and and Tolstoy.
Examples
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The second-wave era of feminism... we had an opening in history and we all, like Nora in Ibsen's Doll House, we all left the house at the same moment.
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Like seeds scattered into the wind, Ibsen's ideas fell on both fertile and sterile soil.
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Did you know that Ibsen loved to travel and never stayed at home?
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Did you know that Ibsen was Norwegian?
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Some people want to say that Henrik Ibsen should figure in there as well.
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Among them I would include Flaubert, Ibsen, Hardy, and Man.
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Since he did, we began taking him along whenever Shakespeare, Chekhov, or Ibsen came to town.
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Growing increasingly irritated by the attitudes he confronted daily, Ibsen resigned from the foreign service in 1890.
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I'll be performing a monologue from Henrik Ibsen's a doll's house.
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Anitra's dance is from Grieg's incidental music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt.
Synonyms
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A Norwegian writer of plays about social and political issues who helped start modern realistic drama
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ibsen comes from two name parts: Ib and -sen. The -sen part means 'son' in Danish and Norwegian, like the English ending in 'Johnson', and Ib is a short form of 'Jacob', so Ibsen originally meant 'son of Ib' and today is used as a family name, as in the playwright Henrik Ibsen.