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Stage play · Drama · 1879

A Doll's House

A wife discovers her marriage was a role she was cast in.

Scene index1 indexed
22INT. THE HELMERS' SITTING ROOM — NIGHT7 pgShe sits him down and speaks to him seriously for the first time.
Monologues in this work1
NORA
A Doll's House · Henrik Ibsen
I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child. And the children, in their turn, have been my dolls.
1:04DramaticAdvanced
WriterHenrik Ibsen
Written1879
Pages80
Reading time1 hr 50 min
RightsPublic domain — Archer translation, 1889
Monologues1 indexed
ThemesMarriage, Money, Selfhood, Respectability
PrincipalsNORA, TORVALD, DR. RANK, KRISTINE, KROGSTAD