The slamming of the front door at the end of A Doll's House shatters the
romantic masquerade of the Helmers' marriage. In their stultifying and
infantilised relationship, Nora and Torvald have deceived themselves and
each other both consciously and subconsciously, until Nora acknowledges
the need for individual freedom. A revised student edition of classic
set text: A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft
which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian
middle class marriage on stage.
The play ushered in a new social
era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life". "Meyer's
translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of
post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the
poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the
field" (George Steiner)
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
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