A revised Methuen Student Edition of the classic set text A Doll s House (1879), this is a masterpiece of theatrical craft that for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle-class marriage on stage.
“I Think That Before All Else I Am a Human Being, Just As Much As You Are—Or At Least I will Try to Become One.” –Henrik Ibsen in A Doll’s House A Doll’s House, the three-act play by Henrik Ibsen, which premiered at the Royal ...
Reproduction of the original: A Doll ́s House by Henrik Ibsen
A well as the complete text of the play itself, this volume contains: · A chronology of the play and the playwright's life and work · an introductory discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was ...
Often hailed as an early feminist work, the story of Nora and Torvald rises above simple gender issues to ask the bigger question: "To what extent have we sacrificed our selves for the sake of social customs and to protect what we think is ...
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One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, A Doll's House richly displays the genius with which Henrik Ibsen pioneered modern, realistic prose drama.
TALKING HEADS 1 & 2 Alan Bennett Six of these monologues by the inventive author of Beyond the Fringe and The ... The Hand of God , A Lady of Letters and Bed Among the Lentils on one night ; Her Big Chance , A Chip in the Sugar and Miss ...
Not–not happy! Nora. No, only merry. And you have always been so kind to me. But our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your dollwife, just as at home I was papa's dollchild; and here the children have been my dolls.
A 1995 critical study of Ibsen's A Doll's House which looks at texts and performances.