Nora Helmer, treated as a plaything by her husband, discovers her own mind and walks out of her marriage. The play whose slamming door helped launch modern drama and the woman question.
Books that mention A Doll's House (3)
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “Watching Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, being patronised by her husband, forced to pretend to be a featherbrain and an angel, a lark and a squirrel, while all the time she’d saved his life, I thought nothing was as sat”
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham: “The play was The Doll's House and the author was Henrik Ibsen.”
The Awkward Age by Henry James: “Ibsen is in fact wonderfully a case in point, since from the moment he's clear, from the moment he's'amusing,' it's on the footing of a thesis as simple and superficial as that of'A Doll's House'--while from the moment he's by apparent intention comprehensive and searching it's on the footing of an effect as confused and obscure as'The…”