Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906) is one of the principal progenitors of Modern Drama, seeding a movement that restored drama’s prestige. A Norwegian auto-didact, he led a theater that gave him deep practical experience and then left his country for 27 years, writing all his ground-breaking plays abroad. His masterpieces, in addition to The Wild Duck (1884), include the epic verse dramas Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867) and the prose dramas A Doll’s House (1879), Ghosts (1881), and An Enemy of the People (1882) which famously challenged the social and cultural norms of his era.