Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
a Norwegian dramatist
1- the father of modem realistic drama
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1- He underwent certain developments beginning with experimental plays that were indebted to the French well-made play of Scribe and to romantic and traditional patterns.
2- his voluntary exile to Rome, he embarked upon his second stage which produced the poetic dramas
3- With his stay in Germany, the third stage started, namely, the realistic social stage which has brought him world-fame
3- In these plays Ibsen treated social problems that reflect "his own inner needs on the one hand, and the Zeitgeist (the spirit of the age) on the othe
4- Ibsen whose doctrine, 'Be Thyself,' which was very much like Nietzche's theory of the Superman who says 'Yea to Life', gave a dramatic presentation of it by picturing in his plays the life of the middle class people with