A Dolls House
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This epochal drama of marriage and the individual portrays a controlling husband Torvald Helmer and his wife Nora a submissive young woman who when their idealized homelife collapses comes to the realization that she must finally close the door on her husband children and life in "a doll's house" in order to find and live as her true self.
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) has been described as 'the father of modern theatre'. Most of his early plays were traditional historical dramas. After 'Peer Gynt', a fairy-tale fantasy in verse, Ibsen wrote the rest of his plays in prose, and came to be regarded as the great Naturalist dramatist.
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Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton is a highly successful British dramatist. His work for the Royal Court included Total Eclipse (1968) and The Philanthropist (1970). An accomplished linguist, his adaptation include Uncle Vany (1970), Hedda Gabler (1970) and A Doll's House (1971). His best known recent work has been his adaptaion of Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Laclos.
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