Ibsenismn.
/ˈɪbsənɪz(ə)m/ The dramatic principles and aims characteristic of the writings of Ibsen and the Ibsenites, which examined and criticized social conventions.
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Marlowism1593
Shakespearism1823
Ibsenism1890
1890 G. B. Shaw in Star 3 Jan. 2/3 A reprobate who greatly prefers Ibsenism to Walter Besantism.
1891 G. B. Shaw (title) The quintessence of Ibsenism.
1893 Black & White 25 Feb. 219/2 True Ibsenites have been confirmed in their Ibsenism.
1895 M. Corelli Sorrows of Satan xvii I have finished my discourse..of Ibsenism.
1902 G. K. Chesterton Lunacy & Lett. (1958) 39 The resistance of the conventional mind to Ibsenism..is fundamentally right.
1916 T. MacDonagh Lit. in Ireland 18 The drama of modern Ireland, in English, is..not free from the faults of impressionism, of quasi-scientific Ibsenism, of unreal gloom and of shallow cynicism.
Derivatives
Ibˈsenity n. (also Ib'scenity) (with play on obscenity).
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1892 National Observer 17 Dec. 107/1 When the din of political factions is silent, and Ibscenity has faded into a literary curiosity.
1893 National Observer 7 Jan. 190/2 But Ibsenity is in the air.
Ibˈsene adj. (also Ib'scene) (with play on obscene).
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1893 National Observer 7 Jan. 190/2 Her story is amateurish, sentimental, Ibsene.
1916 Everyman 5 May 54/2 Their passion for the erotic and Ibsene.
Ibseˈnesque adj. = Ibsenish adj.
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Terentian1600
Sophocleana1644
Shakespeareana1754
Plautine1768
Aeschylean1783
Marlowish1798
Websterian1809
Euripidean1821
Aristophanic1827
Fletcherian1850
Marlowesque1884
Senecan1885
Jonsonian1886
Marlovian1887
Ibsenian1891
Ibsenish1893
Pinerotic1895
Shavian1904
bardolatrous1905
Ibsenesque1906
Strindbergian1913
Lylian1923
Chekhovian1925
Sheridanesque1931
Brechtian1935
Vanbrughian1947
Stoppardian1978
1906 Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 5 May 552/2 A strong-minded, Ibsenesque heroine, with a contempt for social conventions.
1912 R. Macaulay Views & Vagabonds vi. 112 She thinks they're Ibsenesque, but really they're like Miss Yonge in a fit of religious doubt.
1957 A. Miller Coll. Plays (1958) Introd. 12 When All My Sons opened on Broadway it was called an Ibsenesque play.
Ibˈsenian adj. = Ibsenish adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [adjective] > specific playwright
Terentian1600
Sophocleana1644
Shakespeareana1754
Plautine1768
Aeschylean1783
Marlowish1798
Websterian1809
Euripidean1821
Aristophanic1827
Fletcherian1850
Marlowesque1884
Senecan1885
Jonsonian1886
Marlovian1887
Ibsenian1891
Ibsenish1893
Pinerotic1895
Shavian1904
bardolatrous1905
Ibsenesque1906
Strindbergian1913
Lylian1923
Chekhovian1925
Sheridanesque1931
Brechtian1935
Vanbrughian1947
Stoppardian1978
1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism 141 When one of the more specifically Ibsenian parts has to be filled, it is actually safer to entrust it to a novice than to a competent and experienced actor.
1895 tr. M. Nordau Degeneration 524 A drama in which we are shown a really Ibsenian idiot.
1905 Daily Chron. 7 July 8/4 She takes what might be called an Ibsenian view of humanity.
ˈIbsenish adj. of, pertaining to, or resembling the style or views of Ibsen.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [adjective] > specific playwright
Terentian1600
Sophocleana1644
Shakespeareana1754
Plautine1768
Aeschylean1783
Marlowish1798
Websterian1809
Euripidean1821
Aristophanic1827
Fletcherian1850
Marlowesque1884
Senecan1885
Jonsonian1886
Marlovian1887
Ibsenian1891
Ibsenish1893
Pinerotic1895
Shavian1904
bardolatrous1905
Ibsenesque1906
Strindbergian1913
Lylian1923
Chekhovian1925
Sheridanesque1931
Brechtian1935
Vanbrughian1947
Stoppardian1978
1893 Graphic 29 Apr. 467/3 The Ibsenish tendency of the sombre story affected them deeply.
1893 Athenæum 16 Dec. 857/3 The suicide of the woman..is nothing if not Ibsenish. It is unheroic, unromantic, ineffective, insignificant.
1973 Times 8 June 11/6 This meeting between Dr Miller and Charles Darwin, for example, had something unmistakably Ibsenish about it.
ˈIbsenist n. and adj. = Ibsenite n. and adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright > imitation of specific writer > admirer or imitator of specific writer
Shakespearean1837
Marlovian1885
Ibsenite1889
Ibsenist1891
bardolater1903
Shavian1905
Brechtian1959
1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism App. 158 Without being necessarily an Ibsenist, a critic may see at a glance that abuse of the sort quoted..is worthless.
1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism 159 Mr William Archer expressly guards himself against being taken as an Ibsenist doctrinaire.
1902 Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 24 May 644/2 Ellida..is the usual Ibsenist heroine, propounder of the regular Ibsenist ideas.
1906 W. Stevens Let. 27 Apr. (1967) 91 You always were an Ibsenist, without knowing it.
1966 Punch 9 Feb. 206/1 The first love—for all her professed Ibsenist rationalism—won't let him go.
Ibsenistic adj. of, pertaining to, or resembling the style or views of Ibsen.
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1905 Daily Chron. 21 Aug. 4/7 From Ibsenistic drama down to pantomime is not married life the Aunt Sally of the playwright still?
ˈIbsenite n. and adj. (a) (n.) an admirer or imitator of Ibsen; (b) (adj.) = Ibsenian adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright > imitation of specific writer > admirer or imitator of specific writer
Shakespearean1837
Marlovian1885
Ibsenite1889
Ibsenist1891
bardolater1903
Shavian1905
Brechtian1959
1889 E. Dowson in Lett. (1967) 432 The brave little band of Ibsenites.
1891 Literary World 30 Jan. 98/1 The battle that raged between the Ibsenites and certain hostile critics of the Doll's House.
1893 Black & White 25 Feb. 219/2 True Ibsenites have been confirmed in their Ibsenism.
1895 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 9 Nov. 618/1 The material is what we now call Ibsenite: the technique is that of Scribe.
1902 W. B. Yeats Let. 4 Dec. (1954) 386 He [sc. Joyce]..did not knock at the gate with his old Ibsenite fury.
1928 Radio Times 16 Mar. 564/2 Two distinguished Ibsenites..will be heard from London tonight.
1970 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. 12/2 The play..remained Scandinavian in..its Ibsenite thesis that the truth is dangerous to man's precarious happiness.
1972 Listener 7 Sept. 310/1 The formation of the ‘new woman’ of the Ibsenite and Shavian period.
Ibsenitis n. excessive admiration or copying of Ibsen, viewed as a morbid tendency.
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1892 Star 17 Oct. 1/8 A serious drama, with just a touch of ibsenitis.
1892 Star 5 Nov. 1/7 A touch of Ibsenitis in a dramatist does not necessarily make a plagiarist.
Ibsenitish adj. of, pertaining to, or resembling the style or views of Ibsen.
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1893 Illustr. London News 22 July 106/3 The heroine, with her Ibsenitish tendencies, goes to her self-inflicted death.
Ibsenomania n. a craze for the writings of Ibsen.
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1893 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 9/2 Anybody who is not cured of Ibsenomania after seeing this last play..must be declared incurable.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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