Key facts
- Written by
- Henrik Ibsen
- Characters
- Nora Torvald Helmer Krogstad Mrs. Linde Dr. Rank Children Anne-Marie Helene
- Date premiered
- 21 December 1879 ( 1879-12-21 )
- Place premiered
- Royal Danish Theatre , Copenhagen , Denmark
- Original language
- Norwegian , Danish
- Subject
- The awakening of a middle-class wife and mother
- Genre
- Naturalistic / realistic problem play , Modern tragedy
- Setting
- The home of the Helmer family in an unspecified Norwegian town or city, c. 1879
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A Doll's House (Danish and Bokmål: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town c. 1879.
The play concerns the fate of a married woman, who, at the time in Norway, lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world. Despite the fact that Ibsen denied it was his intent to write a feminist play, it was a great sensation at the time and caused a "storm of outraged controversy" that went beyond the theatre to the world of newspapers and society.