#MeToo in 1870s Norway

Ibsen was the father of modern drama; his most famous character was the mother of the modern woman

The original production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, performed at The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1879.

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…