Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    A Doll's House
    Unavailable
    A Doll's House
    Unavailable
    A Doll's House
    Ebook105 pages1 hour

    A Doll's House

    By Henrick Ibsen

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th century marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time, as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself. Ibsen was inspired by the belief that "a woman cannot be herself in modern society," since it is "an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint." Its ideas can also be seen as having a wider application: Michael Meyer argued that the play's theme is not women's rights, but rather "the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person." In a speech given to the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he "must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement," since he wrote "without any conscious thought of making propaganda," his task having been "the description of humanity." In 2006, the centennial of Ibsen's death, A Doll's House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookRix
    Release dateJun 14, 2019
    ISBN9783736800663
    Unavailable
    A Doll's House

    Related to A Doll's House

    Related ebooks

    Performing Arts For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Sounds Like A Good Flick

      Feb 3, 2022

      Sounds Like A Good Flick
      1 min read

    • Article

      Vision Man

      May 17, 2021

      Vision Man
      4 min read

    • Article

      Reading Corner

      Jul 12, 2020

      Could witches actually exist? Are fairy tales not tales at all but relics of a the not-too-distant past? These questions and more are on Roxy’s mind ever since she moved into the Soup Ministry’s servant quarters with her sister Gretel. The Soup Minis

      1 min read

    • Article

      Mad Dogs & Englishmen

      Mar 6, 2020

      Mad Dogs & Englishmen
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Day the Genius Died

      May 23, 2018

      The Day the Genius Died
      5 min read

    • Article

      Role Call

      Feb 25, 2020

      Profession: Actor and farmer Hometown: Born in Houston, raised on a ranch in the Houston area Current home: An 1870s farmhouse located between Austin and Houston KNOWN FOR: A company member at the Alley Theatre for 20-plus years, appearing in everyth

      6 min read

    • Article

      With 'Knives Out,' Writer-director Rian Johnson Recasts Agatha Christie For The MAGA Age

      Nov 22, 2019

      Rian Johnson is 45 and, according to Michael Shannon, one of many well-known actors in Johnson's droll new whodunit "Knives Out," a "lovely guy. I'd work with him again in a heartbeat." Writer-director Johnson's relatives on his mother's side live in

      5 min read

    • Article

      'Slings & Arrows' Made Shakespeare Must-see TV. The Prequel Sounds Just As Delightful

      Nov 6, 2019

      If there's no business like show business, and there is no playwright like Shakespeare, then it stands to reason - and is, in fact, a fact - that there's no series like "Slings & Arrows," a gorgeous Canadian import from the first decade of this centu

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Lost Bohemians

      Apr 29, 2021

      The Lost Bohemians
      5 min read

    • Article

      Theatrical Seekers and True Believers

      Dec 25, 2019

      A MOMENT ON THE CLOCK OF THE WORLD Edited by Melanie Joseph and David Bruin. Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2019. 220 pp., $50 hardcover, $20 paper. MOMENT WORK: TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT’S PROCESS OF DEVISING THEATER Edited by Moisés Kaufman and Barbara P

      6 min read

    • Article

      Come To The Cabaret

      Dec 3, 2018

      Come To The Cabaret
      7 min read

    • Article

      Sculptor, Wrecker And Seducer

      May 27, 2021

      Sculptor, Wrecker And Seducer
      4 min read

    • Article

      Adapting the Bard: On the Hogarth Shakespeare Project’s Diversity Problem

      Oct 5, 2017

      It is disappointing when a project aims to see “the Bard’s plays retold by acclaimed, bestselling novelists and brought to life for a contemporary readership,” yet the writers selected are not ultimately representative of all that contemporary societ

      6 min read

    • Article

      From Parchment To Performance

      Apr 15, 2021

      In Shakespeare’s time, playwriting was a matter of both perspiration and inspiration. First he had to think up a story, which he would shape into a plot. Usually this meant he had to do a lot of fresh reading, because most of Shakespeare’s plays are

      4 min read

    • Article

      Paul Tremblay

      Jun 17, 2020

      IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY BIGGEST FEARS that I would live to see the end of everything,” says Paul Tremblay, speaking to SFX from his Massachusetts home in the middle of lockdown. It’s a singularly peculiar time, and a peculiar interview for him to

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Other Child

      Dec 1, 2018

      The Other Child
      9 min read

    Reviews for A Doll's House

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words