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Peer Gynt
Sign in to savedramatic poem in five acts by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen
Key facts
- Written by
- Henrik Ibsen
- Date premiered
- 24 February 1876 ( 1876-02-24 )
- Place premiered
- Christiania (now Oslo), Norway
- Original language
- Norwegian
- Genre
- Romantic dramatic poem converted into a play
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Author
- Henrik Ibsen
- Genre
- verse drama
- Country of origin
- Norway
- Composer
- Edvard Grieg
- Narrative location
- Norway
- Image
- Henrik-Klausen-Peer-Gynt-1876.jpg
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- Commons category
- Peer Gynt
- publication date
- 1867-11-14
- title
- Peer Gynt
- set in period
- 18th century
- topic's main category
- Category:Peer Gynt
- date of first performance
- 1876-02-24
- inception
- 1867-00-00
- language of work or name
- Norwegian
- location of first performance
- Oslo
- first line
- Peer, du lyver!
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- play
- work available at URL
- www.ibsen.uio.no/DRVIT_PG%7cPGht.xhtml
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Encyclopedic overview
Peer Gynt (/pɪər ˈɡɪnt/ peer GHINT, Norwegian: [peːr ˈjʏnt, - ˈɡʏnt]) is a five-act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays.
Peer Gynt chronicles the journey of its titular character from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert and back. According to Klaus Van Den Berg, "its origins are Romantic, but the play also anticipates the fragmentations of emerging modernism" and the "cinematic script blends poetry with social satire and realistic scenes with surreal ones." Peer Gynt has also been described as the story of a life based on procrastination and avoidance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peer Gynt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.