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Responding to Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays, 4/e
Judith Stanford, Rivier College


Experiencing

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Here is a photograph of the actor Anthony Hopkins in the role of Torvald in a 1973 film of A Doll's House. Have you seen the film? Have you seen the play? In what ways might a film version of A Doll's House differ from a traditionally staged presentation?
2

This review of Ibsen's play, When We Dead Awaken, was written by the author James Joyce when he was just nineteen years old. In it, he mentions A Doll's House, and he points out some similarities between the two plays. If you were to encounter a contemporary a review about A Doll's House, do you think it would be favorable? Click on this link to read a contemporary review of a recent production of A Doll's House. In what ways are these reviews similar? How do they differ?