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- adjective Reminiscent of the style of Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), 19th-century
Norwegian playwright ,theatre director , andpoet .
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Examples
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When the play was first staged in 1990, sympathy lay with the young 20something dominated by a mother described as a "late Ibsenesque figure with mah-jong tiles."
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Third Story, Cornbury, The American Plan 2009
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‘Cold Feet’ played about with structure – how exposition was used for comic or dramatic effect; in ‘Hearts and Bones’ there was a rawness to the tone, an Ibsenesque claustrophobia; ‘This Life’ had swearing, weird camera angles and sexuality.
Archive 2003-01-19 2003
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Many of the utterances of Ludwig's _Studies_ are as startlingly modern, not to say Ibsenesque, as similar ones in Hebbel's
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Ibsenesque tendency of the populace, but when he came in one day and found her curled upon the sofa bent over "Peer Gynt" he laughed and told her to forget what he'd said -- that it was all rot.
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When the play was first staged in 1990, sympathy lay with the young 20something dominated by a mother described as a "late Ibsenesque figure with mah-jong tiles."
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Ibsenesque tendency of the populace, but when he came in one day and found her curled upon the sofa bent over “Peer
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"Well, they're growing 'like Swedes -- Ibsenesque, you know.
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