Happy Birthday, Henrik Ibsen. The Norwegian playwright, dead for more than a hundred years, created female characters that were ahead of his time. The rich tapestry of his female protagonists and antagonists allow characters to grow and develop, as well as explore their own strengths and weaknesses. Most of his women are tragic, but in the tragedy he takes them into questions of their position in society, and how they strive to be more than the constraints on women permit them to be.
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