A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) was born in Norway on March 20. The son of a once-wealthy merchant whose fortunes collapsed, young Henrik learned early that respectability was often just a costume, a theme he would later unravel with surgical precision. At twenty-one, he moved to Oslo (then called Christiania) with dreams of becoming an artist, only to be drawn into the world of theater. His early plays ...