This epochal drama of marriage and the individual portrays a controlling husband, Torvald Helmer, and his wife, Nora, a submissive young woman who, when their idealized home life collapses, comes to the realization that she must finally close the door on her husband, children, and life in "a doll's house" in order to find and live as her true self.
This unabridged edition of Henrik Ibsen's provocative three-act play, originally published in 1879, explores the life of a 19th-century wife, ready to disregard social customs and financial security for a shot at independence.
Here is a deeply absorbing play as readable as it is eminently playable, reprinted from an authoritative translation.
Lucas Hnath’s funny, probing, and bold play is both a continuation of Ibsen’s complex exploration of traditional gender roles, as well as a sharp contemporary take on the struggles inherent in all human relationships across time.
. . First published in 1947, Rumer Godden's classic The Dolls' House has been delighting children for years, and this beautiful edition, illustrated by Jane Ray, will delight future generations for years to come.
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.
A 1995 critical study of Ibsen's A Doll's House which looks at texts and performances.
This new translation, the first to be based on the latest critical edition of Ibsen's works, offers the best version available in English.
'I don't know, and neither can we be sure that other crimes aren't going on.' 'I don't get you.' 'The hotel receipt.' 'What about it?' 'It's all too convenient. It links Jenkins to Gloria Sweetman. The killer could have wanted us to ...
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 ...
A bold new version of Ibsen's brutal portrayal of womanhood.