A Doll's House

She was his little songbird, his doll, until she opened the cage herself.

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About this edition

Nora Helmer has a pretty home, three children, and a husband who calls her his songbird and his squirrel and pets her like a charming toy. To save his life she once did a forbidden, loving thing, and the secret of it now creeps toward the light, threatening the doll’s house she has so carefully kept. Across three taut acts the make-believe falls away, until Nora must ask whether she is a wife and mother at all, or first of all a human being.

First staged in 1879, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House scandalized Europe with the sound of a door closing behind a woman who walks out of her marriage, the slam heard round the world. It remains the most performed of his plays and a founding work of modern drama.

This edition presents the complete play in R. Farquharson Sharp’s classic translation, newly set in a clear, readable design behind an original painting.

Details

• Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), translated by R. Farquharson Sharp
• The complete play in three acts, first staged 1879
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 108 pages