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A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen

Start date: April 1, 2017

Finish date: April 30, 2017

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Dec 18, 2016 Richard Subber rated it it was amazing

This is Ibsen's stark, unforgiving play about men and women, with a dreadful undercurrent of desperation. Torvald Helmer offers only bland, devastating condescension to Nora, whose despair grows ever more public as she realizes that she has drowned herself in the domestic dead end of being Torvald's "doll-wife."
If you ache, like me, to bash Torvald and comfort Nora as you experience the pervasive and thinly veiled brutality in the Helmer household, then you, like me, must realize how much you wi ...more

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Oct 08, 2012 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: drama, audio-books, scandinavian-literature, fiction-19th-century, read-2012

Drama on 3:
Tanika Gupta transposes the setting of Ibsen's classic play to India in1879 where Nora is an Indian woman married to Torvald, an English man working for the British Colonial Administration in Calcutta. Nora risks her own reputation in order to save her husband's and in the process discovers herself. This new version of A Doll's House takes a fresh look at the play shining a light on British colonial history and race relations as well as gender politics and class.

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Apr 22, 2007 Suvi rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: _europe-northern, 1800s, theatre

Not exactly my cup of tea. I did like the ending but don't believe Nora could stay forever away. She's just too naive and stupid for that. ...more

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May 01, 2016 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: translation, feminist-stuff, classic, plays

This wasn't at all what I expected, and I confess I was pleasantly surprised by the ending.

First of all, I thought I had read this, but clearly I had it confused with another book. Second of all, I had Nora pegged as a twit (I was basically silently screaming at her: just tell him everything and get it over with! for most of the play), Christine as a meddling ass, and Torvald as a pompous idiot. I do not believe it is a spoiler to say this: I had them all wrong. (Well, maybe I wasn't so wrong ab ...more

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