A Doll’S House

Henrik Ibsen a Norwegian writer wrote the three-act play A Dolls House. After being published earlier in the month it had its world premiere on December 21 at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen Denmark. The piece is set in an 1879-era Norwegian town. Despite the fact that Ibsen denied it the play is about the fate of a married woman who at the time in Norway lacked realistic prospects for self-fulfillment in a world controlled by males. It created a storm of angry debate that spread from the theater to the world of journalism and society at the time creating a huge sensation. A Dolls House held the distinction of being the most-performed drama in the entire globe in 2006 the year of Ibsens death and the century of his birth. In 2001 in appreciation of the historical importance of Ibsens handwritten manuscripts for A Dolls House UNESCO inscribed them on the Memory of the World Register. Although some academics prefer A Doll House the plays title is most frequently rendered as A Dolls House. A Dolls House is the British name for what [Americans] call a dollhouse according to John Simon.