Research Guides: Doll's House, A: eBooks

Electronic Books

"A Doll’s House" in Drama for Students
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781414428291
Publication Date: 1998
Includes an overview of play, brief biography of playwright, plot summary, discussion of play's principal themes, essays on play's construction, and excerpted critical commentary.
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1467775312
Publication Date: 2014-08-01
It's Christmastime in Norway, and Norma Helmer is preparing her lovely home for the holidays. A dainty, jovial woman, Norma is adored by her husband, Torvald, and their three children. But when an old friend comes to visit, Norma reveals that her life is not as carefree as it seems. Norma is keeping a secret from Torvald, a secret that would shatter his illusion of her as the perfect wife. But is she prepared to maintain that illusion for the rest of her life? This unabridged edition of Henrik Ibsen's provocative three-act play, originally published in 1879, explores the life of a 19th-century wife, ready to disregard social customs and financial security for a shot at independence.
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; Philip M. Parker
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1281677795
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Family by Knapp, John V., 1940-
Call Number: PN56.F3 F36 2013 and ebook
ISBN: 1429837829
Publication Date: 2013
contains Susan Callahan -- A very wild dance indeed: family systems in Henrick Ibsen's A doll's house
Henrik Ibsen : A Doll's House (Humanities Insights) by S. H. Siddall
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781847600592
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Stephen Siddall's study of one of Ibsen's most innovative plays places it firmly in the context of nineteenth century European theatre, novelty theatre, and the society of Norway of its time. The book discusses responses to Ibsen, especially those of George Bernard Shaw and William Archer in London, and the relationship of the play to issues of theatrical censorship. (More modern treatments, like the remarkable ones by Ingmar Bergman and by Fassbinder, are also covered.) The character of Nora leads into a discussion of feminism, and her relationship with Torvald and the performance of the crucial tarantella is sensitively discussed.
Law and Justice in Literature, Film and Theater by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 3110294524
Publication Date: 2013-03-22
This volume is a Nordic contribution to research on law and humanities. It treats the legal culture of the Nordic countries through intensive analyses of canonical Nordic artworks. Law and justice have always been important issues in Nordic literature, film and theater from the Icelandic sagas through Ludvig Holberg and Henrik Ibsen to Lars Noréns theatre and Lars von Trier's Dogme films of today. This book strives to answer two fundamental questions: Is there a special Nordic justice? And what does the legal and literary/aesthetic culture of the North mean for the concept of law and justice and for the understanding of the interdisciplinary exchange of law and humanities? The concept of law and literature as a research area was originally developed in countries of common law. This book investigates law and humanities from a different legal tradition, and contributes thus both to the discussion of the general and the comparative studies of law and humanities.

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