IBSEN, Henrik.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Et Dukkehjem (A Doll's House). First edition. Ibsen's famous play "fell like a bomb into contemporary life... Was it right, morally right, for Nora to desert husband and children and think only of her own spiritual liberation? She was judged not as a dramatic character, but as a living person. It was in a way the greatest triumph the dramatist could have won" (Koht, pp. 152-3).It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The binding has been noted in a variety of colours, without priority.Provenance: Clive Hirschhorn (b. 1940), the film and theatre critic for the Sunday Express for over three decades, with his pencil ownership inscription on the front free endpapers verso.

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