A Doll's House (; also translated as A Doll House ) is a three-act play in prose by the playwright Henrik Ibsen.

UNESCO inscribed Ibsen's autographed manuscripts of A Doll's House on the Memory of the World Register in 2001, in recognition of their historical value.

A Doll's House opens as Nora Helmer returns from Christmas shopping.

A Doll's House was based on the life of Laura Kieler ( maiden name Laura Smith Petersen ).

Ibsen wrote A Doll's House at the point when Laura Kieler had been committed to the asylum, and the fate of this friend of the family shook him deeply, perhaps also because Laura had asked him to intervene at a crucial point in the scandal, which he did not feel able or willing to do.

A Doll's House criticises the traditional roles of men and women in 19th-century marriage.

A Doll's House has been adapted for the cinema on many occasions.

Dariush Mehrjui's film Sara ( 1993 ) is based on A Doll's House, with the plot transferred to Iran with Sara, played by Niki Karimi, is the Nora of Ibsen's play.

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A Doll's House, Nick Hern Books, London, 1994

Ibsen's A Doll's House ( Page to Stage Study Guide ) Nick Hern Books, London, 1997

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* A Doll's House at the Internet Movie Database

* The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, a book by Emma Goldman, contains a chapter on A Doll's House.

* 1879 – World première of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.

Examples include The Sandman: The Doll's House, where an abused child escapes into dreams styled after McCay's comics and using a similar ' wake-up ' mechanism, and The Sandman: Book of Dreams ( pub.

She continued to act in the theatre for most of her career, and became noted for her portrayal of Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, but became wider known once she started to work with eminent Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman.

In 2006 Ullmann announced that she'd been forced to give up on her dream of making a film based on A Doll's House.

* The Patrick Garland version of A Doll's House, released in 1973, is now owned by MGM and StudioCanal.

Gordon continued to act on the stage throughout the 1930s, including notable runs as Mattie in Ethan Frome, Margery Pinchwife in William Wycherley's Restoration comedy The Country Wife at London's Old Vic and on Broadway, and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at Central City, Colorado, and on Broadway.

The Doll's House ( 1922 ) treats the topic of social inequity.

* Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House ( 1984 )

* Henrik Ibsen releases A Doll's House in 1879

Comden and Green's biggest failure was 1982's A Doll's Life, an attempt to figure out what Nora did after she abandoned her husband in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, which ran for only five performances, although they received Tony Award nominations for its book and score.

" Fagerbakke has received critical acclaim as a thespian by the Screen Actors Guild and Juilliard School of Performing Arts for his roles as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and Torvald in Ibsen's A Doll's House.

When Desire is first introduced in The Doll's House, it is shown within the Threshold: a giant, flesh and blood replica of itself which it calls its home.

Martin Tenbones, a huge dog-like creature who was seen briefly in The Doll's House, somehow manages to escape into the waking world.

He suggests that some action of Barbie's prevented the Cuckoo from leaving the Land on her own and that these events may have had some connection to the events of The Doll's House.

Roger Avary was originally attached to direct after the success of Pulp Fiction, collaborating with Pirates of the Caribbean screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio in 1996 on a revision of their first script draft, which merged the " Preludes and Nocturnes " storyline with that of " The Doll's House ".

Determined to bounce back, he started working on a new musical A Doll's Life with lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green that would continue the story of Nora Helmer past what Henrik Ibsen had written in A Doll's House.

Afterwards, she started out on stage, making her professional debut in Richard III at the California Shakespeare Festival in 1970, before moving to Broadway to star in A Doll's House in 1975.

She toured Singapore on an assignment with the Singapore Repertory Theatre Company, acting in Ingmar Bergman ’ s adaptation of Ibsen ’ s A Doll's House, which was directed by Rey Buono.

* Nora ( EWTC show ), a 2009 play based on Ibsen's A Doll's House

As early as November 1880, when Ibsen was living in Rome, he was meditating on a new play to follow A Doll's House.

The forms of low fantasy include personified animals, personified toys ( including The Indian in the Cupboard and The Doll's House ; building on the earlier The Adventures of Pinocchio ), comic fantasies of exaggerated character traits and altered physics ( including Pippi Longstocking and The Borrowers ), magical powers, supernatural elements and time slips.

Among his many credits, Hayes led the brass section on the sessions for Music in a Doll's House, the acclaimed 1967 debut album by rock band Family, on which the young Mike Batt arranged the strings and brass.

Among them were Claude Régy ( La Trilogie du revoir and Grand et Petit by Botho Strauss ), Patrice Chéreau ( Peer Gynt by Ibsen ), Peter Brook ( Mahabhharata ), Bernard Sobel ( Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertold Brecht, Tartuffe by Molière ), Deborah Warner ( A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen ), Antoine Vitez ( L ' Échange by Paul Claudel ), Jacques Rosner ( The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov and Breakfast with Wittgenstein based on a novel by Thomas Bernhard ), and Jacques Lassalle ( Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and The Misanthrope by Molière ).

It was during those years that she had her greatest successes on the stage in plays such as Goethe's Faust ( Gretchen ), Shakespeare's Hamlet ( Ophelia ), and Ibsen's A Doll's House ( Nora ).

In The Doll's House we already see examples of her being taken for younger than her 21 years, and upon reaching 26 her youthful appearance is remarked on even more often.

In drama, the late nineteenth century saw such " New Woman " plays as Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House ( 1879 ) and Hedda Gabler ( 1890 ), Henry Arthur Jones's play The Case of Rebellious Susan ( 1894 ) and George Bernard Shaw's controversial Mrs. Warren's Profession ( 1893 ) and Candida ( 1898 ).

The public reaction to the novel was similar to the protests which greeted the publication and performance of Henrik Ibsen's landmark drama A Doll's House ( 1879 ), a work with which The Awakening shares an almost identical theme.

In a series of plays Ibsen addressed a range of problems, most notably the restriction of women's lives in A Doll's House ( 1879 ), sexually-transmitted disease in Ghosts ( 1882 ) and provincial greed in An Enemy of the People ( 1882 ).