On this day 119 years ago, on May 23, 1906 (April 1, 1906 leap month in the lunar calendar), the Norwegian playwright Ibsen died. Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen In 1828 Henrik Ibsen was born in Skene, a small coastal town in southeastern Norway. In 1844-1850, he left secondary school, worked as an apprentice in a pharmacy, and read many books in his spare time. In 1850, he wrote the first historical tragedy "Katilinna", and began his creative career from then on. In 1851, he came to Oslo, the capital, to found "Literary News Weekly", and continued to participate in the national independence movement. From 1851 to 1862, he served as a theatre manager and artistic director, striving to open the way for the revitalization of Norwegian national drama. From 1864 to 1891, he lived in Germany and Italy and returned to his motherland in his later years. Ibsen wrote a total of 25 plays and some poems in his lifetime. Most of the early plays were based on Nordic folklore and Norwegian history, full of patriotism and romanticism. "The Warrior of the Hull Grande", published in 1858, was Norway's first national realist drama. In the 1970s, he wrote more than a dozen social drama plays, such as "The Pillars of Society", "The Enemy of the People" and "Ghosts". Among them, his masterpiece "The Doll's House" depicted a middle-class housewife, Nala, who was dissatisfied with her status as a doll and ran away in anger, directing her criticism to the bourgeois family. Morality and Religion. Most of Ibsen's works focus on social issues, earning him the reputation of "Master of the Question Mark". The layout of Ibsen's plays is extraordinary, the structure is compact, the dialogue is concise and vivid, and he is good at using flashbacks, which strongly arouses the audience's ideological resonance and has a profound impact on the development of modern world drama.