A Doll's House (1879): Library Resources

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Full text of A Doll's House is also available on the Web at:

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You might find the following eBooks useful for researching A Doll's House. 

Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about A Doll's House. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• Contemporary Authors [vol 141]
• Critical Survey of Drama [vol 4]
• The Crown Guide to the World's Great Plays
  
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 2]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 2]
• Drama Criticism [vol 2]
• Drama for Students [vol 1]
• European Writers [vol 7]
• An Ibsen Companion: A Dictionary-Guide to the Life, Works, and Critical Reception of Henrik Ibsen
  
• Literature and Its Times [vol 2]
• Major Modern Dramatists [vol 2]
  
• Masterplots [vol 3]
• McGraw Encyclopedia of World Drama [vol 3]
• Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vol 44] - locate the topical essay "Dramatic Realism"
  • [vol 156] - locate the topical essay "The New Woman in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
    
• The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
  
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 2, 8, 16, 37, 52] - look for dukkehjem, et in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work

Conduct a "Subject Browse" search using the Library Catalog for:

• Ibsen, Henrik
  

You'll find library materials that provide biographical information about Henrik Ibsen, as well criticism and interpretation of Ibsen's work.

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Want more information about various productions and critical reception of this play?

Visit our Research Guide to Theater Arts

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