Peer Gynt Peer Gynt Peer Gynt (; ) is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen published in 1867. Written in Danish—the common written language of Denmark and Norway in Ibsen's lifetime—it is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays. Ibsen believed "Per Gynt", the Norwegian fairy tale on which the play is loosely based, to be rooted in fact, and several of the characters are modelled after Ibsen's own family, notably his parents Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg. He was also generally inspired by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's collection of Norwegian fairy tales, published in 1845 ("Huldre-Eventyr
Michael Kahn (theatre director) III", "The Beaux' Stratagem", "Love's Labour's Lost", "Othello", "Lorenzaccio" (world premiere), "Macbeth", "Cyrano", "Five by Tenn", "The Winter's Tale", "The Silent Woman", "The Oedipus Plays", "The Duchess of Malfi", "Timon of Athens", "Don Carlos", "Hedda Gabler", "King Lear", "Coriolanus", "Camino Real", "A Woman of No Importance", "King John", "The Merchant of Venice", "Peer Gynt", "Sweet Bird of Youth", combined "Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 & 3", "Mourning Becomes Electra", "Henry V", "Volpone", combined "Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2", "Richard II", "The Doctor's Dilemma", "Hamlet", "Mother Courage and Her Children", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Measure for Measure", "Richard III", "Twelfth