“Ibsen is no playwright,” Chekhov was heard to complain.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Wood on his Criticism and Critics] Reference

That's because the concern wioth issues in Ibsen's plays derives from his profound insight into human character.    From Wordnik.com.  [A night to cherish ...] Reference

"Dust" is a pathetic little story having for its central idea what seems like a pale reflection of the idea of Ibsen's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bjornstjerne Bjornson]

Surely Chekhov’s objection to Ibsen was founded in the feeling that Ibsen is like a man who laughs at his own jokes.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 December 01 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference

The kind like in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler when Hedda burn’s Lovborg’s manuscript and cries out “I am burning your child.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Impressionist Review of Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions | Living the Liminal] Reference

Nora Helmer – A great and fantastic woman hiding under the facade of “the ideal 19th century woman” in Ibsen’’s book A Doll House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godzilla Sh | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

Recall Ibsen's Peer Gynt, the section concerning the Button Molder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction in the News] Reference

The girl in Ibsen's "Master Builder"! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Convert] Reference

Ibsen is one of my favourite playwrights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ibsen in the Afternoon] Reference

'Ibsen's masterpiece reborn as a piece of world-class popular theatre for our time ...'.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Ibsen and the enthusiastic admiration of Jonas Lie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

I am beginning to feel the same way even about Ibsen.    From Wordnik.com.  [By the Christmas Fire] Reference

I've seen productions of Ibsen that offered more laughs.    From Wordnik.com.  [What to say about ... Design for Living] Reference

Ibsen has a place in the history of social transformation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Civilization] Reference

He renewed the Chekhov; Ibsen has left him drowning at sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary-Louise's Bare Bum Had Me Hedda-ing for the Exits!] Reference

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2002] Reference

We cannot, of course, neglect the intellectual influence of Ibsen and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personality in Literature] Reference

He has helped to create reputations -- the reputations, for instance, of Ibsen and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personality in Literature] Reference

The same inhospitality met some of the plays of Ibsen and some of the symphonies of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

According to Ibsen, these people should consider taking a look at their personal brand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone: Rejected Outright for the Job Because of Their Online Image] Reference

Ibsen: "Never post anything on the Internet you wouldn't want your mother - or boss - to see.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone: Rejected Outright for the Job Because of Their Online Image] Reference

Ibsen tapped into his business/social network on LinkedIn to search and identify potential candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone: Rejected Outright for the Job Because of Their Online Image] Reference

In college I fixated on Ibsen and rejoiced at the character of Nora's metamorphosis in A Doll's House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jessica Queller: Arthur Miller, Ally McBeal, and Me] Reference

Ibsen, in sheer mastery of dramaturgic means, stands fourth in rank among the world's great dramatists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference

How much homely good-fellowship has grown up around the noble names of Ibsen, Björnsen, and Strindberg.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

"Oh, do produce Ibsen," Alicia exclaimed; "I've never seen one of his plays -- doesn't it sound terrible!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of a Star] Reference

The greatest works of Ibsen can be appreciated only by the cultured individual and not by the uncultured crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference

For 2009 also marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Knut Hamsun, Norway's most significant writer outside of Ibsen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Fighting or Whitewashing Nazism: Will the Real Norway Please Stand up?] Reference

The issue, however, is a far more massive public health threat than any Ibsen ever imagined -- it's the threat of superbugs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carl Pope: Enemies of the People] Reference

Ibsen realised this, and arranged that Hedda should call for some wood to be cast upon the fire at the beginning of the scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference

We hear talk of the moral teaching of Ibsen, -- as if, instead of being a maker of plays, he had been a maker of golden rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference

As far as my course was concerned, I was not meant to imbibe Ibsen, but Ibsen seen through the eyes of Marxist Raymond Williams.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Dr. Hogan introduced us to Ibsen, Brecht, and Miller, and encouraged us to visit funky theaters to see way-off Broadway productions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Vander Ark: In favor of Humanities] Reference

When he says that "Ibsen was to the last fascinating and full of a strange moving beauty," he says it as if he were reproaching Ibsen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personality in Literature] Reference