"Little Eyolf" dramatist

Usage examples of ibsen.

L I S K A S L I D T H E Saturn to the curb in a no-parking zone a quarter of a block from the coffeehouse Ibsen had chosen for their meet.

They had to have been watching Ibsen to catch him in that alley, she D U S T T 0 D 0 S T 237 thought.

Brynhild is not only not the Brynhild of The Valkyries, she is the Hiordis of Ibsen, a majestically savage woman, in whom jealousy and revenge are intensified to heroic proportions.

Gibbon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Stendhal, Samuel Butler, Ibsen, Zola, Flaubert, Shaw, Joyce -- in one way or another they are all of them destroyers, wreckers, saboteurs.

With the loss of them there follows uncertainty, and with uncertainty, disequilibrium, since life, as both Nietzsche and Ibsen knew, requires life-supporting illusions.

It’s a very gloomy play by Ibsen, and whenever it’s simply more than I can bear, I look up and see Mentone on the left, Monte Carlo on the right—I mean, I see all the loveliness round me, and then I know the world isn’t so bad after all.

He cited Sophocles ('already mentioned'), Shakespeare and Ibsen as masters of this art form, which purged us with pity.