Every play by Henrik Ibsen, from Catiline to When We Dead Awaken
The top 3 according to 10 votes from people: St. John's Eve (1852) · Love's Comedy (1862) · The Pretenders (1863). (Updated Sep 29, 2025.)
Henrik Ibsen wrote 25 plays over almost 50 years, from the verse drama Catiline in 1850 to When We Dead Awaken in 1899. Here they all are in chronological order, with original title and whether they are in verse or prose – from the early historical dramas through Brand and Peer Gynt to modern plays like A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler.
Automatically translated (original in Norsk). See the original
Top 25
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1
St. John's Eve (1852)
Entirely or partly in verse.
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2
Love's Comedy (1862)
Entirely or partly in verse.
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3
The Pretenders (1863)
Entirely or partly in verse.
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4
The League of Youth (1869)
In prose.
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5
A Doll's House (1879)
In prose. Nora's door-slam became a landmark of world drama.
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6
An Enemy of the People (1882)
In prose.
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7
The Burial Mound (1850)
Entirely or partly in verse. Published under the pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme.
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8
Lady Inger of Oestraat (1854)
In prose.
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9
The Feast at Solhaug (1855)
Entirely or partly in verse.
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10
Olaf Liljekrans (1856)
Entirely or partly in verse.
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11
The Vikings at Helgeland (1858)
In prose.
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12
Peer Gynt (1867)
Entirely or partly in verse. Edvard Grieg wrote the incidental music.
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13
Emperor and Galilean (1873)
In prose.
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14
Pillars of Society (1877)
In prose.
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15
Ghosts (1881)
In prose.
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16
Rosmersholm (1886)
In prose.
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17
The Lady from the Sea (1888)
In prose.
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18
Hedda Gabler (1890)
In prose.
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19
The Master Builder (1892)
In prose.
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20
Little Eyolf (1894)
In prose.
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21
John Gabriel Borkman (1896)
In prose.
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22
When We Dead Awaken (1899)
In prose.
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23
Catiline (1850)
Entirely or partly in verse. Published under the pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme.
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24
The Wild Duck (1884)
In prose.
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25
Brand (1866)
Entirely or partly in verse.
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