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Peer Gynt (/ˈpɪər ˈɡɪnt/; Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈpeːr ˈɡʏnt]) is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Written in the Bokmål form of Norwegian 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.
