A Doll's House

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Stage & Screen, 1997 - 112 pages
Ibsen's best-known play displays his genius for realistic prose drama. An expression of women's rights, the play climaxes when the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house."

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
45
Section 3
77
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A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
Limited preview - 1998

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (1997)

Henrik Ibsen, poet and playwright was born in Skein, Norway, in 1828. His creative work spanned 50 years, from 1849-1899, and included 25 plays and numerous poems. During his middle, romantic period (1840-1875), Ibsen wrote two important dramatic poems, Brand and Peer Gynt, while the period from 1875-1899 saw the creation of 11 realistic plays with contemporary settings, the most famous of which are A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen died in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway in 1906.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Doll's House
AuthorHenrik Ibsen
Translated byFrank McGuinness
PublisherStage & Screen, 1997
ISBN1568655754, 9781568655758
Length112 pages
  
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