Book · 1879 · Fiction

A Doll's House

Name: A Doll's House
Author: Henrik Ibsen

Dover Publications · 72 pages

★ 8.0 editorial score

Nora Helmer forged a signature to save her husband's life and has been paying the debt in secret ever since. The play ends on a closing door that modern theater still hears.

Genre

Realism Modernism Drama

Medium

Play

Subject

Marriage Oppression of women Individual vs. society Self-actualization

Setting

Norway

Time

1879Depicts 1870s

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