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==Works== ===Plays=== Plays entirely or partly in verse are marked <sup>v</sup>. {{colbegin|colwidth=33em}} * 1850 ''[[Catiline (play)|Catiline]]'' (''Catilina'')<sup>v</sup>. First published under pseudonym of Brynjolf Bjarme. * 1850 ''[[The Burial Mound]]'' also known as ''The Warrior's Barrow'' (''Kjæmpehøjen'')<sup>v</sup> * 1852 ''[[St. John's Eve (play)|St. John's Eve]]'' (''Sancthansnatten'')<sup>v</sup>{{efn|Only the prologue is in verse, the rest is in prose.}} * 1854 ''[[Lady Inger of Oestraat]]'' (''Fru Inger til Østeraad'') * 1855 ''[[The Feast at Solhaug]]'' (''Gildet paa Solhaug'')<sup>v</sup>{{efn|In a combination of prose and verse.}} * 1856 ''[[Olaf Liljekrans]]'' (''Olaf Liljekrans'')<sup>v</sup>{{efn|In a combination of prose and verse.}} * 1858 ''[[The Vikings at Helgeland]]'' (''Hærmændene paa Helgeland'') * 1862 ''[[Love's Comedy]]'' (''Kjærlighedens Komedie'')<sup>v</sup> * 1863 ''[[The Pretenders (play)|The Pretenders]]'' (''Kongs-Emnerne'')<sup>v</sup>{{efn|Mainly in prose, with a few speeches in verse.}} * 1866 ''[[Brand (play)|Brand]]'' (''Brand'')<sup>v</sup> * 1867 ''[[Peer Gynt]]'' (''Peer Gynt'')<sup>v</sup> * 1869 ''[[The League of Youth]]'' (''De unges Forbund'') * 1873 ''[[Emperor and Galilean]]'' (''Kejser og Galilæer'') * 1877 ''[[Pillars of Society]]'' (''Samfundets Støtter'') * 1879 ''[[A Doll's House]]'' (''Et Dukkehjem'') * 1881 ''[[Ghosts (play)|Ghosts]]'' (''Gengangere'') * 1882 ''[[An Enemy of the People]]'' (''En Folkefiende'') * 1884 ''[[The Wild Duck]]'' (''Vildanden'') * 1886 ''[[Rosmersholm]]'' (''Rosmersholm'') * 1888 ''[[The Lady from the Sea]]'' (''Fruen fra Havet'') * 1890 ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' (''Hedda Gabler'') * 1892 ''[[The Master Builder]]'' (''Bygmester Solness'') * 1894 ''[[Little Eyolf]]'' (''Lille Eyolf'') * 1896 ''[[John Gabriel Borkman]]'' (''John Gabriel Borkman'') * 1899 ''[[When We Dead Awaken]]'' (''Når vi døde vaagner'') {{colend}} ===Other works=== * 1851 ''[[Norma (play)|Norma or a Politician's Love]]'' (''Norma eller en Politikers Kjaerlighed''), an eight-page political parody{{efn|Though sometimes identified as a play, ''Norma'' was never intended for performance. This "juvenile polemical work" was an attack on the Norwegian parliament or ''[[Storting]]'', identifying several legislators by name as "fortune hunters". It first appeared anonymously in the satirical magazine ''[[Andhrimner]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jaeger|first1=Henrik Bernhard|title=The Life of Henrik Ibsen|date=1890|publisher=William Heinemann|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/lifehenrikibsen00gossgoog/page/n80 64]|url=https://archive.org/details/lifehenrikibsen00gossgoog|access-date=4 April 2015}}</ref> Using play-like dialog and the names of characters from Bellini's opera ''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'', Ibsen's hero chooses the "passive" female who represents the government over the heroic title character representing the opposition.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Templeton|first1=Joan|title=Ibsen's Women|date=1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=340|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ouBuYXeTTsC&pg=PA340|access-date=4 April 2015|isbn=9780521001366}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibsen.nb.no/id/530.0|title=Facts about Norma|last=Hanssen |first=Jens-Morten|date=10 July 2005|publisher= National Library of Norway|access-date=13 April 2015}}</ref> }} * 1871 ''[[Digte]]'' – only released collection of poetry, included ''[[Terje Vigen]]'' (written in 1862 but published in ''[[Digte]]'' from 1871) ===English translations=== Major translation projects include:<ref>{{Cite web|title=English Translations : Ibsen Society of America|url=https://ibsensociety.org/in-english-translation/|access-date=2021-06-24|website=ibsensociety.org}}</ref> * ''The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen'', in twelve volumes, edited by [[William Archer (critic)|William Archer]] (Heinemann, 1906-1912). 21 plays. *''[[The Oxford Ibsen]]'', edited by [[James McFarlane]] (Oxford, 1960-1977). The most comprehensive version available.<ref>{{Cite book|last=France|first=Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JKTD2B2jxA8C|title=The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation|date=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-818359-4|language=en}}</ref> *[[Michael Meyer (translator)|Michael Meyer]]'s translations (1960-1986). Fourteen plays. *''Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays'', translated by [[Rolf G. Fjelde]] (Plume, 1978). Twelve plays. *''Eight Plays'', translated by [[Eva Le Gallienne]] (Modern Library, 1982). * ''Ibsen's Selected Plays: A Norton Critical Edition'', edited by [[Brian Johnston (literary researcher)|Brian Johnston]], with translations by Brian Johnston and Rick Davis (W. W. Norton, 2004). Five plays.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ibsen's Selected Plays|url=https://wwnorton.com/books/Ibsens-Selected-Plays|access-date=2021-06-24|website=wwnorton.com|language=en}}</ref> * ''Ibsen – 3 Plays'' (Kenneth McLeish & Stephen Mulrine, translators ([[Nick Hern Books]], 2005) *''The New Penguin Ibsen'', in four volumes, edited by Tore Rem, with translations by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife, Barbara Haveland, Deborah Dawkin, Erik Skuggevik and Geoffrey Hill (Penguin, 2014-2019). Fourteen plays.
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