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A Doll's House

A Doll's House

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Publication Date: November 28th, 2013
Publisher:
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
9781494317959
Pages:
126

Description

Written in 1879, this three-act playbecame the world's most performedplay; a tale of drama and blackmail. Hailed as an early feminist work, this is about the struggle betweenindependence and security, invitingthe reader to examine their own life, to see what they have sacrificedfor social customs, and madethemselves playthings in the handsof external forces.

About the Author

Henrik Johan Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828, in Skien, Norway, to an extremely wealthy and prominent family. His father went bankrupt when he turned seven however, and the family was forced to move into their smaller, summer home. His father became a nasty alcoholic. At fifteen, Henrik left school to become an apprentice pharmacist. At eighteen, an affair with a servant, produced a child. Ibsen supported the child, although he never saw him. At the age of twenty, in 1850, he began writing plays and got a job at a theater. There, he was responsible for more than 145 plays, as writer, director and producer. In 1858, he married Suzannah Thoresen and they had one child. He left them in 1864, for a self-imposed exile in Italy, not returning to Norway for 27 years. In 1865, he finally gained critical acclaim, followed by financial success. In 1868, he moved to Germany, where he wrote "A Doll's House," in 1879. Ibsen became known as "the father of realism," and one of the founders of Modernism, in theater. Ibsen suffered a series of strokes in 1900, and died in Oslo, on May 23, 1906, at the age of 78. He is buried there.