A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen · 1879 CE · Play · Nordic · Victorian

Nora Helmer has kept from her husband a loan she forged a signature to obtain, taken years earlier to pay for the cure that saved his life. Over three days at Christmas the man who holds the debt threatens exposure, and the marriage she has performed for eight years is put to the test. The play that made the middle-class living room the arena of modern drama.

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• ↓ Death of a Salesman
  Arthur Miller · 1949 CE · Play — influenced by this
• ↓ Miss Julie
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• ↓ Thunderstorm
  Cao Yu · 1934 CE · Play — influenced by this
• ↓ Ghosts
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• ↓ The Father
  August Strindberg · 1887 CE · Play — responds to this

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