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stars Claire Bloom as Nora, and Anthony Hopkins as her puritanical husband Torvald

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A Doll's House Synopsis
The text of Ibsen's play, written in 1879 and translated into English by the playwright, Frank McGuinness. Nora confronts her husband, Torvald, with her own brutal realization that by marrying she has moved from her father's doll's house into yet another situation of economic dependency.

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Hedda Gabler marries dull George Tesman and forsees a life of middle class tedium stretching ahead. Increasingly, she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack, who seeks to establish a menage a trois.

Henrik Ibsen interviewed in the The Humanitarian, 1897

Do you think the woman question, the question of the future?'
He smiled. 'Why of the future?' he said. 'Has it not always been the question, is it not the question now. There is no reason why it should ever cease to be the question. If you mean, however, to ask; whether the immediate future will see the emancipation of women, that is to say an equalization of their position with that of men, I say, no. There are many years, centuries to pass before such emancipation takes place. It will be the result of a natural proaessas, the gradual increase of physical strength in women, combined with an increase of civil power, of wealth, and so on - not at all the result of the isolated action of a few foolish individuals.'

'Then you think women should be admitted to political power?'
'I never said so. Gott be1vahre! I said they will gain an increase of civil power, inevitably, whether you or I think they should have it or not. They will attain equal powers with men. Have they not done so already in parts of America? But there, no doubt, the women are endeavouring to anticipate. These things cannot be yet. Das muss sich so Alles entwickeln. Little by little the restrictions as to the holding of wealth, of property, by women will fall away, and simultaneously powers will be naturally conceded to the women to protect their property. Whether all women will care to exercise political power, to vote and so on, is another question.'