A Doll's House (Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp with an Introduction by William Archer)

First performed at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen Denmark on December 21 1879 A Dolls House is one of Henrik Ibsens most famous plays. It is the story of Nora Helmer who has secretly borrowed a large sum of money to help her husband recover from a serious illness sometime prior to the beginning of the play. Nora who has borrowed this money by forging her fathers signature soon fears that her secret will be discovered when her husband Torvald becomes director of the bank and fires an associate Nils Krogstad who knows of Noras transgression. When Krogstad threatens to reveal Noras secret she begs her husband not to fire him however he refuses. The tension that arises in Nora and Torvalds marriage ultimately comes to a head when Torvald finally learns of the forgery. A gripping drama about a failing loveless marriage A Dolls House was very controversial when it debuted because of its critical attitude toward 19th-century marriage norms. Ibsen himself believed that the male dominated society of the 19th-century society failed to allow women to truly be themselves and thus advocated through his work for an advancement of womens rights. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes an introduction by William Archer.