Premium Content A Doll's House: Breaking With Theatrical Tradition
By Kristen Roggemann - November 25, 2002
In A Doll's House by Ibsen, the author takes the preconditions and viewer expectations of the play format established by earlier writers and uses them to shock his audience rather than lull them into oblivion with simple entertainment. Ibsen inherits these preconditions and expectations from two main theatrical trends, the tragic tradition and the…
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