Jan 3, 2010

The Oxford Dictionary of Plays | A Doll's House

Doll's House, A (Et dukkehjem)

Alternative Title: Nora

Author: Henrik Ibsen

First Performance: 1879, Copenhagen

Published: 1879

First English Translation: 1880

Genre: Drama in 3 acts; Norwegian prose

Setting: Middle-class home in Norway, Christmas, 1870s.

Cast: 4m, 4f, 3 children

At first sight the marriage of Torvald Helmer and Nora seems happy: he has just been appointed manager of his bank, and the seemingly light-headed Nora, indulged by him, buys little luxuries for Christmas. When an old friend Christine Linde visits her, Nora reveals that none of this would have been possible, had she not found the money to pay for a year abroad when Helmer was very ill. Unfortunately, in order to borrow the money off a disreputable individual, Krogstad, she forged...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Plays | A Doll's House

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