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A Doll's HouseOn the coverStrikkende kvinde. Kunstnerens moder, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1889
A Doll's House
A cheerful young wife who once secretly saved her husband’s life, at the cost of a forbidden loan, watches her comfortable marriage unravel and confronts what she has never been allowed to become: herself. The play that detonated modern drama.
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The play that changed theatre forever, a quiet domestic drama that builds to one of the most famous exits in all of literature. Still bracing, still radical.
SettingNorway, 1870s
Respectable middle-class Scandinavia in the 1870s, where a wife was legally and socially her husband’s dependent, and a woman’s duty to herself was an unthinkable idea.