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=Henrik Ibsen =

Henrik Ibsen devoted his entire life to the theater and changed the world of being on stage. He was born March 20,1828 in a Norwegian village called Skien. When Ibsen turned twenty years old he attended Christiania University and was hired as a "theater poet" by Ole Bull. He then left Norway and established himself in Rome. Some of his plays symbolize the protests against social conditions, such as //Ghost//. His other plays were either comedies or tragedies. His most recognized and successful tragedy was //The Burial Mound//. In 1850 //The Burial Mound// was performed three times. Ibsen considered his most important play //The Emperor and the Galilean//. He then returned to Christiania and died May 23,1906.

"If I were to tell at this moment what has been the chief result of my stay abroad, I should say that it consisted in my having driven out of myself the aestheticism which had a great power over me - an isolated aestheticism with a claim to independent existence. Aestheticism of this kind seem to me now as a great curse to poetry as theology is to religion."

-Henrik Ibsen wrote to Björnson

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