A doll´s house

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A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at tha Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. Initially criticized, later acclaimed as one of the first works celebrating the right of women to live their lives to their fullest in XIX century male-dominated society. Its interpretation was later extended to include the right of all individuals to discover who they really are and to become that person. His plays portray people from the middle class of his day, whose routines are suddenly upset as they confront a deep crisis in their lives. Among Ibens's best known works, A Doll's Hpuse shows the play's leading character, Nora Helmer, striving to free herself from her role as her husband Torcald's "doll", seeking to be true to her own self and to find her own way in the world. Ibsen's signed manuscripts of A Doll's House were inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2001.