Henry ibsen

Henrik Ibsen 
Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20 of 1828 in Skien, Norway and died on May 23 1906. He is often referred to as "the father" of modern theater and is one of the founders of Modernism inthe theatre. He was the second of six children. Ibsen’s father was a prominent merchant, but he went bankrupt when Ibsen was eight years old, so Ibsen spent much of his early life living in poverty.Later Ibsen bitterly recalled how his father's friends broke all connections with him and the "Altenburg Manor", earlier known for its dinners and festivities. As a child Ibsen dreamed of becoming anartist. His mother, Marichen Cornelia Martine Altenburg, was an avid painter, and she loved theatre. Ibsen's education was interrupted by poverty and at the age of 15 he was apprenticed to apharmacist in Grimstad. 
Ibsen moved in 1850 to Christiania (now Oslo), where he attended Heltberg's "student factory", an irregular school for university candidates, and occasionally earned from hisjournalistic writings. From 1851 to 1864, he worked in theaters in Bergen and in what is now Oslo (then called Christiania). At age twenty-one, Ibsen wrote his first play, a five-act tragedycalled Catiline. Like much of his early work,Catiline was written in verse.
They were not originally intended for the stage; they were "reading dramas". These two works helped solidify Ibsen’s reputation as one of thepremier Norwegian dramatists of his era. In 1879, while living in Italy, Ibsen published his masterpiece, A Doll’s House; written in prose, it was very important in the development of what soon becamea highly prevalent genre of theater; realism, which strives to portray life accurately and shuns idealized visions of it. In A Doll’s House, Ibsen employs the themes and structures of classicaltragedy while writing in prose about every day, unexceptional people. Some of the themes discussed in A Doll’s House are social class, gender issues, nature of love, moral confusion, tradition,...