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A Doll's House
Paperback
Literary CriticismPlaysPlaywriting
ISBN13: 9782491251390
Publisher: Les Prairies Numeriques
Published: Jul 24 2020
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
A Doll's House (Danish and Bokmål: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879.
The play is significant for the way it deals with the fate of a married woman, who at the time in Norway lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world, despite the fact that Ibsen denies it was his intent to write a feminist play. It aroused a great sensation at the time, and caused a storm of outraged controversy that went beyond the theatre to the world newspapers and society.
In 2006, the centennial of Ibsen's death, A Doll's House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play that year. UNESCO has inscribed Ibsen's autographed manuscripts of A Doll's House on the Memory of the World Register in 2001, in recognition of their historical value.
The title of the play is most commonly translated as A Doll's House, though some scholars use A Doll House. John Simon says that A Doll's House is the British term for what [Americans] call a 'dollhouse'. Egil Törnqvist says of the alternative title: Rather than being superior to the traditional rendering, it simply sounds more idiomatic to Americans.
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