He wrote radical narratives that other writers of the time dared not write. The ‘newness’ of Ibsen’s themes and ideas in this middle period of his writing life – the social plays or problem plays – stemmed primarily from a concentration on the middle class and the ordinary people. Its narrative exposes the detailed internal dynamics of a seemingly happy bourgeoise marriage between husband and wife in addition to exploring the widespread female emancipation of the nineteenth century. Ibsen’s most famous and citically renowned play is his 1879 masterpiece, A Doll’s House. The Norwegian brought a freshness and dramatic innovation in his writing and this is why he's dubbed “the Father of Modern Drama”. During the second half of the nineteenth century, he changed the face of theatre as the world knew it. The playwright Henrik Ibsen is Norway’s most famous literary figure. If you haven’t read or seen it yet, here’s why you should. A Doll’s House is Henrik Ibsen’s greatest and his most famous play.
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