Ibsen Critics

• Ibsen makes 'Helmer grotesque, and reduces the tragic quality of the ending' = Ronald grey on the presentation of Torvald
• 'The play does not succumb to melodrama' = Ronald Grey
• 'it is...her inescapable duty, to leave this gentleman...who fails to understand her value as a human being'= Review in Social Demokraten (1879)
• 'Instead of a drama of action or incident [Ibsen] offers us a theatre of monstrous epiphany' = James Joyce (1900)
• 'I have never written any play to further a social purpose.' = Ibsen
• '[it is] women's disproportionate confinement in private spheres [that] correlates with women's subordinate status.' = L Code
• ''There are thousands of such Doll's Homes'' =  Review of Social Demokraten
• Rank symbolises the degeneration of the family = Sally Ledger.
• "illogical and immoral" = Die Gegenwart
• "To be a man is to dominate others" = Ben Tarnoff
• "A play obsessed by money" = Sophie Duncan
• "A darling defiance of cultural norms at the time" Brian Johnson
• "Virtually inventing the emancipated women in the last act of ADH" Finney