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Henrik Ibsen, The Great Norwegian

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Day
29
Month
October
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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phiywrijfht, whose "Uoll s liouse causea suoïi a controvergy among the critic3, is described as baring tlie :iir of an old Norse seatnan. 1 1 is playa haye given rise to a wiile tliS'iHsion notonly of the nierits and defecls of Ibsen's play, but of the social questlons which his dramas ratee. For Ibsen's futictlons are those of a sulirtet of the fi'llips of eocieti' atxl of the ve;iknes8 of human nature The simma Hinl humbngs In moral politics, literature and 8ociit.y are the tarLvta of his well glmed thots. Ibsen was born in a liltle town in Norvvay in 18(). When lie was rijrlit years old his fatlier, wlio was n merohant, bi-came insolvent, and Ibsen was Ihus at an early ajre made familiar with dtpiessin ii.lluenct's. At 10 liewas npprenticed to a ciiemi-t, and later on went to Chris tlan la University. He found little relish for professional studies and devoted all the time he could spare frorn tlum to writing historical plays, wbich were not bad. He then bccutne director of Uie Natioual Theatre in Christlanta, h poiitlon beoccupled for 13 years. He found out, tiowevcr, that he was out of touch with his country. He left Norway for Germany and has lived there for neaily 30 year.-!. He lives nearly a hermlt lite in .Munich, and it i from tliis city that hlfl playa, whlch mark the bezinDing of a new era in the history of drumntlc literature have been sent out in the woi ld.

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Ann Arbor Courier