Ibsen

[ ib-suhn; Norwegian ip-suhn ]

/ ˈɪb sən; Norwegian ˈɪp sən /

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noun

Hen·rik

[hen-rik], /ˈhɛn rɪk/, 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet.

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How to use Ibsen in a sentence

Icke has reworked Ibsen’s oracular 1882 play, about a whistleblower in a Scandinavian town dependent for economic survival on a spa whose waters he knows to be contaminated.
Ann Dowd, the twisted Aunt Lydia of ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ beguiles in a new take on Ibsen’s ‘Enemy of the People’|Peter Marks|July 1, 2021|Washington Post
By 2010, Hunter was directing a well received revival of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at Access Theatre on Broadway.
Meet the Future Mrs. Benedict Cumberbatch|Tom Sykes|November 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
(Please note that this Master Builder is not known to be related to the Ibsen play by the same name).
The Top 10 Diets of 2013 Are All Useless (Except to Book Publishers)|Kent Sepkowitz|December 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The playwright Jon Fosse could avoid the curse of Henrik Ibsen to become a Norwegian dramatist Nobel laureate.
Nobel Literature Prize Favorites for Dummies, According to the Bookies|Jimmy So|October 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST

It's always been an ugly impulse; see Ibsen's Enemy of the People for starters.
In Defense of the Defense of Chris Hayes|Michael Tomasky|May 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The friend I phoned is Ryan Ibsen, who is the Wine Director at Pasanella & Son, Vitners, on South Street in New York City.
The Secrets of Matchmaking|Katie Workman|August 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Ibsen will live, not as a dramaturgist, but as the greatest professor of dramaturgy the world has ever known.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
But Miss Lewis likes it; she's been reading Ibsen, and she wants to do a 'drama of ideas', and all that sort of thing, you know.
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair
Their defeat had so discouraging an effect that Prussia abandoned the Ibsen struggle in their behalf.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year|Edwin Emerson
The first of these four pamphlets was entitled “Ghosts,” a title borrowed from Ibsen.
The Evolution of Sinn Fein|Robert Mitchell Henry
That settled it with her—she said she wouldn't try to be Benevolent any more—so she joined an Ibsen Club.
Fables in Slang|George Ade

British Dictionary definitions for Ibsen

Ibsen

/ (ˈɪbsən) /

noun

Henrik (ˈhɛnrɪk). 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet. After his early verse plays Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867), he began the series of social dramas in prose, including A Doll's House (1879), Ghosts (1881), and The Wild Duck (1886), which have had a profound influence on modern drama. His later plays, such as Hedda Gabler (1890) and The Master Builder (1892), are more symbolic

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