'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what
other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to
think for myself.' Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in
Copenhagen, the second in a series of realist plays by Ibsen, and
immediately provoked controversy with its apparently feminist message
and exposure of the hypocrisy of Victorian middle-class marriage. In
Ibsen's play, Nora Helmer has secretly (and deceptively) borrowed a
large sum of money to pay for her husband, Torvald, to recover from
illness on a sabbatical in Italy. Torvald's perception of Nora is of a
silly, naive spendthrift, so it is only when the truth begins to
emerge, and Torvald appreciates the initiative behind his wife, that
unmendable cracks appear in their marriage. This compelling new
version of Ibsen's masterpiece by playwright Simon Stephens premiered
at the Young Vic Theatre, London, on 29 June 2012. 'Ibsen's great
feminist drama' Daily Telegraph
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ISBN
9781408173336
Publisert
2015
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Methuen Drama
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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