Public Reaction to Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House"

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May 26, 2012

 

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[Half sinks down by the door.] HELMER: [joyfully, but softly] Nora! [curtain closes] Ibsen's play upset German directors so much that they forced him to write an alternate ending. Ibsen called the changed ending a "barbaric act of violence towards the play". The play was an outrage described by furious Victorian newspapers as "...
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Ibsen called the changed ending a "barbaric act of violence towards the play". The play was an outrage described by furious Victorian newspapers as "..an open drain" and "a toilet" and met by protestors in several cities. "A Doll's House" was the Passion of the Christ or Fahrenheit 911 of its time. Loaded with brutal attacks and angry symbolism towards its middle class audience there is no wonder that this play caused so much controversy...
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