Henrik Ibsen
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 Henrik Ibsen facts

• He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre
• His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Pillars of Society, The Lady from the Sea, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder and John Gabriel Borkman
• He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century
• Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety
• Ibsen's later work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries
• It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality
• The poetic and cinematic early play Peer Gynt, however, has strong surreal elements
• Ibsen is often ranked as one of the most distinguished playwrights in the European tradition
• Richard Hornby describes him as "a profound poetic dramatist—the best since Shakespeare"
• He is widely regarded as the most important playwright since Shakespeare