Henrik Ibsen
1828 – 1906 · Norway · Literature
A Doll's House detonated 19th-century assumptions about marriage.
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- William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616 · Literature
Ibsen builds the modern prose tragedy from Shakespearean dramatic structure.
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