A Doll's House

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Garland
"Nora and Torvald's relationship is an resolved battle for power"
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Michael C. Wiseman
"She was like an actress filling a role by adopting a prefabricated personality not her own"
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Kate Milett (1971)
"Nora confronted every convention and the chivalrous masculine prejudice"
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Social Demokraten (1879)
"There are thousands of such doll-houses" and it was her "inescapable duty" to leave
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Social Demokraten (1879)
"Who, after seeing this play, has the courage to speak scornfully about run-away wives?"
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Koht
"The play exploded like a bomb on contemporary life"
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Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph found it having a "rotten morality"
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Eric Bogh
"A play so simple in its action and so everyday in its dress"
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Sally Ledger
The play shows a "critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois class"
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J Moody
"Victorian drama plays on the fears of a society newly alert to the anxieties and embarassments of a capitalist system"
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Rustin
"The illusion of bourgeois contentment unravels"
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James Joyce (1900)
"[Ibsen] offers us a theatre of monstrous epiphany"
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Polly Teale
"All the men in the play have a strong association with death"
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Non and Nick Worrall
"The detached scientific curiosity with which he regards his own demise...suggests a macabre fascination with the processes of illness and death"
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Non and Nick Worrall
"His disgust and bitterness at his lot are intense and he is jealous that Mrs. Linde will very rapidly take his place as the family friend"
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Non and Nick Worrall
"Her energy and love of life...come into their own"
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Non and Nick Worrall
"The first and final serious talk between Nora and Helmer represents a reversal in their previous roles"
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"She was like an actress filling a role by adopting a prefabricated personality not her own"

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Michael C. Wiseman

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"Nora confronted every convention and the chivalrous masculine prejudice"

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"There are thousands of such doll-houses" and it was her "inescapable duty" to leave

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"Who, after seeing this play, has the courage to speak scornfully about run-away wives?"

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