A Doll's House and Other Plays
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"A Doll's House and Other Plays" is a collection of eight of the most popular dramas by Henrik Ibsen. In "A Doll's House" we have the story of Nora Helmer, the wife of the prideful bank manager Torvald. Nora finds herself the victim of a blackmail scheme by Nils Krogstad, a man whom she has borrowed money from in order to save her husband's life. Probably Ibsen's most famous work, "A Doll's House" is accompanied by the following and equally dramatic works: "The League of Youth", "Ghosts", "An Enemy of the People", "The Wild Duck", "The Lady From the Sea", "Hedda Gabler", and "The Master Builder". In this volume fans of Ibsen and the dramatic theater will find a representative selection from one of the greatest dramatists to ever have lived.
Henrik Ibsen
Born in 1828, Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet, often associated with the early Modernist movement in theatre. Determined to become a playwright from a young age, Ibsen began writing while working as an apprentice pharmacist to help support his family. Though his early plays were largely unsuccessful, Ibsen was able to take employment at a theatre where he worked as a writer, director, and producer. Ibsen’s first success came with Brand and Peter Gynt, and with later plays like A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and The Master Builder he became one of the most performed playwrights in the world, second only to William Shakespeare. Ibsen died in his home in Norway in 1906 at the age of 78.
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