#MeToo in 1870s Norway
5 min readJun 18, 2020
Ibsen was the father of modern drama; his most famous character was the mother of the modern woman
Henrik Ibsen was a 19th-century Norwegian playwright. His most famous works include Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, and A Doll’s House (among many others). A Doll’s House was first performed in 1879, and it single-handedly ushered in modernism in Western dramatic literature — not only because of its feminist subject…