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A Doll’s House Background and Playwright Info

A Doll’s House Background and Playwright Info. About the Playwright—Henrik Ibsen. Norway—Place it in geography 1828-1906—Place it in history Unsuccessful at beginning of career, gained popular success with verse comedies Switched to writing controversial realistic dramas like A Doll’s House

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A Doll’s House Background and Playwright Info

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  1. A Doll’s HouseBackground and Playwright Info

  2. About the Playwright—Henrik Ibsen • Norway—Place it in geography • 1828-1906—Place it in history • Unsuccessful at beginning of career, gained popular success with verse comedies • Switched to writing controversial realistic dramas like A Doll’s House • These realistic dramas are what make him important

  3. Controversy about A Doll’s House • Dramatization of marital conflict was considered scandalous • Sometimes the play was performed with a rewritten last act • Ibsen, under lots of pressure, wrote an alternate ending, which he later regretted

  4. What Plays were like before A Doll’s House • Plays were about spectacle and romance • No realistic or truthful depictions of everyday life • Women were depicted as financially and legally dependent on husbands (which is how it really was) • Rebellious women usually died or otherwise came to ruin

  5. How A Doll’s House Changed Theatre • For the first time, a play was about real life situations (i.e. a married woman in financial trouble) • Tried to make audience forget they were watching a show, not real life • Stage is treated like it is a real place where real events are taking place • Actors acted and spoke like real people

  6. To sum it all up… • A Doll’s House might seem “normal” now, but when it was first written, it was shocking, exciting, and new! • It changed the way plays have been written since then.

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