Henrik Ibsen is often considered the father of realism, but the citation is, more likely than not, a result of plays written later in a career that began in1850. It was<em> Ghosts</em> (1879) and <em>A Doll's House</em> (1881), that we think of as having conferred the realist title on him.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:26PM on May 25, 2016