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Cold passion, modern sensibility chill 'Doll's House'

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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20040116
Author:Chad Jones, STAFF WRITER

HENRIK Ibsen's "A Doll's House" long has been trumpeted as a late 19th-century shout-out for women's liberation.

Audiences were stunned in 1879 when Ibsen's heroine, Nora Helmer, threw off the mantle of pretty, pampering wife and doting mother and struck out on her own.

Much has changed in the 125 years since "A Doll's House" premiered. We're all a little more self-aware, and if there's not exactly widespread equality between the sexes, there is at least a generally accepted notion of what that equality should be.

It would be wonderful to say that there were no more women like Nora, ...

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