A Doll's House
by:
Henrik Ibsen (author)
One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, displaying Ibsen's genius for realistic prose drama. A classic expression of women's rights, the play builds to a climax in which the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection...
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One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, displaying Ibsen's genius for realistic prose drama. A classic expression of women's rights, the play builds to a climax in which the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486270623 (0486270629)
Publish date: 1992-02-21
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
This will always be one of my favorites!
This will always be one of my favorites!
I had given this play a fairly ordinary review when I first commented on it, simply because when I studied it at high school I was put off by the fact that Nora simply up and left, and in a way it felt like she had undergone an inexplicable and sudden change. However, after reading [book:Peer Gynt] ...
Ibsen is credited as the father of modern drama. Certainly this play backs that up. It looks at the realities of middle class life and has an emphasis on realism. It is also an attack on the falseness and hypocrisy of many marriages.However, despite the necessarily truncated story and fast action...
I think the translation takes some stuff out of it, but it's still pretty good.
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