Henrik Isben 

  

  HI, my name is Mary but everybody calls me Molly. I am 16 years old and i play three sports volleyball, basketball, and softball. I  would have to say my favorite sport would be softball because I love playing outdoors and I love the competition. One my favorite things to do on my free time is to go shopping with my friends. Something I really enjoyed doing this year in english class was reading all the short stories and doing group projects. I really am very excited to start reading "A Dolls House". I think the play is going to be about and doll that is walking through a scary house and discovering things about the house that she didn't already know before. 



   Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828 in Skien, Norway. As a child Henrik would show little signs of the theatrical genius that he would become. Henrik was the oldest of five children. His mother loved to paint and play the piano and also loved to go in to the theater. Henrik's father was a merchant and at the age of 8 Henrik and his family were going through poverty due to problems with his fathers business. 
    Henrik spent most of his time reading and painting and he loved performing magic tricks. When Henrik was only 15 he stopped his schooling and he went to work. He started to work as an apprentice in an apothecary in Grimstad. He worked for 6 years and wrote poetry and painted. Ibsen wrote his first play Catilina in 1849. Henrik then moved to Germany where he wrote one of his most famous plays of all times "A Dolls House" in 1868. Henrik Ibsen was greatly inspired by William Shakespeare. 


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