A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken, 9780198955092
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A real-life Doll’s House inspires debate, revenge, and Ibsen’s final act.

A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken

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    320 pages

  • Release Date

    4 February 2026

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Summary

‘Oh, be not afraid. I am cast out of society, but you, is it not true, you walk around as a man of honour? What more do you want?’ (Laura Kieler, Men of Honour)

Very few readers and audiences know that Ibsen’s iconic feminist drama A Doll’s House was built upon the real-life story of a woman called Laura Kieler, who was his friend and fellow writer. Her life fell apart when A Doll’s House came out and the world saw her deeply private life splashed across its stages. …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198955092
ISBN-10:019895509X
Author:Henrik Ibsen, Laura Kieler, Gaye Kynoch, Tzen Sam, Kirsten E. Shepherd
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:4 February 2026
Weight:235g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 18mm
Series:Oxford World's Classics
About The Author

Henrik Ibsen

Gaye Kynoch has a background in the integrated academic, research and practical study of drama, performance and theatre arts. She has worked with a number of theatre companies and arts organisations, and is a freelance Danish-English literary translator of plays and novels, in addition to books and essays on topics related to history and the arts. Kynoch is also a founding member of the Danish Theatre Forum Europe.

Kirsten E. Shepherd is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Her area of interests are theatre and science, the plays of Ibsen, and the role of theatre and performance in the historiography of Modernism. Her books include Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015) and Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (2016).

Tzen Sam is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, focusing on Henrik Ibsen’s first female English translators, the women who played an important but largely unacknowledged role in the transmission and reception of Ibsen’s plays in late-Victorian England. Sam completed her undergraduate degree at Peterhouse, Cambridge and an MA at University College London before beginning her DPhil at Oxford.

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