Publisher's Synopsis
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 drama.A Doll's House (Norwegian: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. It is known for creating realistic dialogue, a suspenseful flow of events and, above all, psychologically piercing characterizations that make the struggles of his dramatic personages utterly convincing. Here is a deeply absorbing play as readable as it is eminently playable.The story is about Nora Helmer, who has a secret-a necessary lie that, when discovered, breaks her provincial bourgeois home and awakens her to the oppression of her marriage and the suppression of her own discontent. For Nora, it's also an opportunity to escape from her controlling husband and a chance to be recognized not only as a wife or a mother but as a human being.
