A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House: Genre 1 key example

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Explanation and Analysis:

Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play A Doll’s House falls under the genre of Realism. The drama, written in prose, deals with a number of culturally sensitive issues relevant to the playwright’s contemporary society, as well as modern life today, the most pressing (and prescient) of these being the role of women in the domestic and public spheres.