What were his influences?
What is he know for dramatically?
- From 'A Doll's House and other stories'
- Born at Skien, Norway in 1828. His family went bankrupt as a child, struggled with poverty
- Scholorship to Rome, wrote theather and worked in them
- He had become interested in women's idependance
- He had been impressed on a book about the status of women
- He sponsored a proposal that women members should be allowed to vote
- Ibsen speaks of working on 'a play of modern life.'
- In Munich, while working on the play, he meets an old friend (female) who had since been married and the marriage wan't going well. This visit had a great influence on Ibsen. Torvald is like her husband, she is far from the 'doll' which Nora is described as.
- Imagines the characters of the plays, dreams of them comming to him and what they are wearing.
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