ISBN: 9781472528247

Ibsen's classic play about the struggle between independence and security still resonates with readers and audience members today. Often hailed as an early feminist work, the story of Nor… More...

Ibsen's classic play about the struggle between independence and security still resonates with readers and audience members today. Often hailed as an early feminist work, the story of Nora and Torvald rises above simple gender issues to ask the bigger question: 'To what extent have we sacrificed our selves for the sake of social customs and to protect what we think is love?'' Nora's struggle and ultimate realizations about her life invite all of us to examine our own lives and find the many ways we have made ourselves dolls and playthings in the hands of forces we believe to be beyond our control. One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, displaying Ibsen's genius for realistic prose drama. A classic expression of women's rights, the play builds to a climax in which the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in 'a doll's house.'Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as the father of realism and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century. Several of his plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was required to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. The poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt, however, has strong surreal elements. Ibsen is often ranked as one of the truly great playwrights in the European tradition and has influenced other playwrights and novelists such as George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, James Joyce, Eugene O'Neill and Miroslav Krleža. Digital Content>E-books>Theatre & Drama>Drama>Plays, Bloomsbury Publishing Digital >16<

2013, ISBN: 9781472528247

'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.' Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House p… More...

'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.' Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen, the second in a series of realist plays by Ibsen, and immediately provoked controversy with its apparently feminist message and exposure of the hypocrisy of Victorian middle-class marriage. In Ibsen's play, Nora Helmer has secretly (and deceptively) borrowed a large sum of money to pay for her husband, Torvald, to recover from illness on a sabbatical in Italy. Torvald's perception of Nora is of a silly, naive spendthrift, so it is only when the truth begins to emerge, and Torvald appreciates the initiative behind his wife, that unmendable cracks appear in their marriage. This compelling new version of Ibsen's masterpiece by playwright Simon Stephens premiered at the Young Vic Theatre, London, on 29 June 2012. It was updated with minor changes in 2013.; EPUB; Art & Photography > Theatre studies, HarperCollins Publishers<

ISBN: 9781472528247

In Byrony Lavery's new adaptation of one of Ibsen's finest plays, A Doll's House emerges as a thoroughly modern and edgy thriller for our times. Previously Lavery has adapted to the stage… More...

In Byrony Lavery's new adaptation of one of Ibsen's finest plays, A Doll's House emerges as a thoroughly modern and edgy thriller for our times. Previously Lavery has adapted to the stage Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Musuem and Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, as well as Jouko and Juha Turkka's Cherished Disappointments in Love and Mary Webb's Precious Bane. Digital Content>E-books>Theatre & Drama>Drama>Plays, Bloomsbury Publishing Digital >16<

ISBN: 9781472528247

'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.'Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House pre… More...

'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.'Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen, the 'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.'Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen, the Arts & Entertainment, Methuen Drama<

2014, ISBN: 9781472528247

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