Book Review: A Doll’s House (Ibsen)


Have I read this before: I remember reading this at some point, yes, but I don’t remember when.

Review: I love all the tension in this play. All the secrets, all the sneaking around, all the covert conversations…a lot of plays that I’ve read on this list have some or all of these elements, but I think Ibsen does it best in this one. Completely unrelated, but did you know that Ibsen is the second-most frequently performed dramatist in the world (after Shakespeare)?

Favorite Part: Nora’s choice at the end. It would have been so easy to make her do the opposite of what she did and for there to be a “happy ending” of the traditional sort, but she was written to make, in my opinion, the right choice.

Rating: 5/10

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