Henrik Ibsen

Temperament and environment combined at the period we have now reached to turn Ibsen into a satirist. It was during his time of _Sturm und Drang_, from 1857 to 1864, that the ha...

With the publication of _Hedda Gabler_ Ibsen passed into what we may call his final glory. Almost insensibly, and to an accompaniment of his own growls of indignation, he had ta...

Ibsen's native biographers have not found much to record, and still less that deserves to recorded, about his life during the next five years. He remained in Bergen, cramped by...

In middle life Ibsen, who suppressed for as long a time as he could most of his other juvenile works, deliberately lifted _Catilina_ from the oblivion into which it had fallen,...

The parentage of the poet has been traced back to a certain Danish skipper, Peter Ibsen, who, in the beginning of the eighteenth century, made his way over from Stege, the capit...

With the appearance of _An Enemy of the People_, which was published in November, 1882, Ibsen entered upon a new stage in his career. He had completely broken with the Conservat...

Ibsen's four years in Italy were years of rest, of solitude, of calm. The attitude of Ibsen to Italy was totally distinct from that of other illustrious exiles of his day and ge...

During the latest years of his life, which were spent as a wealthy and prosperous citizen of Christiania, the figure of Ibsen took forms of legendary celebrity which were equall...

While Ibsen was sitting at Munich, in this climacteric stage of his career, dreaming of wonderful things and doing nothing, there came to him, in the early months of 1875, two n...

Having accustomed ourselves to regard Ibsen as a disturbing and revolutionizing force, which met with the utmost resistance at the outset, and was gradually accepted before the...

Henrik Ibsen Ibsen in 1868 Ibsen in Dresden, October, 1873 From a drawing by Gustav Laerum Facsimile of Ibsen's Handwriting Ibsen. From the painting by Eilif Petersen Bust of Ib...

Ibsen threw on his tomb the characteristic bunch of bitter herbs called _Til de genlevende_--"To the Survivors," in which he expressed the faintest appreciation of those who lav...