Biography
His Plays
Europe in 1870s
His Influence
Creators Choice
100
What was the maiden name of his grandmother?
Paus
100
A Doll's house is a how many act play?
3
100
What was the prince of Norway during the 1870s?
Haakon VII of Norway
100
True or False: Stanislavsky and Ibsen both believed that drama should reflect real life
True
100
Who is the protagonist of the play "A Doll's House"?
Nora
200
Where and when was he born?
Skien, Norway, 1828
200
Name another one of his more famous plays (Not a Doll's House)
Hedda Gabler
200
What was the role of women in Norwegian society during the late 19th century (including the 1870s)?
A woman’s main responsibility centered around being a housewife, whose most prominent task was to serve her husband and children (it was an exclusively male society with laws drafted by men, and with counsel and judges who judge feminine conduct from the male point of view)
200
True or False: Henrik Ibsen was influenced by Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Arthur Miller and George Bernard Shaw.
False - he influenced these people
200
What is a theme in Shakespeare's plays that would not be seen in that of Ibsen's?
Magic
300
What was his psueodnym name for his own play?
Brynjolf Bjarme
300
What was the name of the first play he ever wrote? (1850)
Catilina
300
What does the term “bourgeois respectability" refer to?
The expectations about being upper-middle class that were forming during this time in Norway
300
Did the Saturday Review say the following about Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler in the 1890s: "The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas. Hedda’s soul is a-crawl with the foulest passions of humanity.”
Yes
300
What was critiqued about A Doll's House?
The portrayal of the role of man and wife.
400
What is the name of his father?
Sigurd Ibsen.
400
Which of his plays launched his career? (Performed in Munich)
The Pillars of Society
400
What were the expectations of the upper middle-class in Norway during the 1870s?
Financial success without any debt, good morals (or at least making it appear that’s the case), and a stable, patriarchal family
400
Name one influences from Ibsen's childhood that affected his literary works later on...
Financial difficulty, strict parents, growing up in a small, coastal town (city vs country).
400
A Doll's House was the most performed play in what year?
2006
500
What is Henrik Ibsen's star sign?
Pisces
500
Which of his plays has following the character: A general's daughter who is newlywed, hates her scholarly husband, but destroys her former love who stand in her husband's way academically? (Sometimes called the female Hamlet). And what was the character's name?
Hedda Gabler
500
What lasted from 1843 to 1875 in Norway?
The growth and prosperity of Norway’s upper-middle class with a great economic boom
500
Define realism
Broadly defined as "the faithful representation of reality"
500
What is the name of the actress who demanded an alternative ending to the play?
Hedwig Niemann-Raabe
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