A Doll’s House and Other Plays

Nora Helmer's exit at the close of A Doll's House caused enough scandal in 1879 that Ibsen was pressed into writing an alternative ending for some productions. This volume collects that play with further work from Henrik Ibsen's realist period, in which respectable households turn out to rest on debts, silences and borrowed reputations. Marriage, money and the price of social approval recur across the texts, and the dialogue carries the weight that scenery and long speeches carry elsewhere. Reading the plays together shows how persistently Ibsen returned to the same pressure point from different angles. A few specifics: • Includes A Doll's House with other Ibsen plays • Drawn from his realist, socially critical period • Modern English translation for reading and study • Penguin Classics edition of Ibsen's drama For theatre students, drama readers and anyone studying modern European literature, published by Penguin Classics and available from Boipoka.