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Question 1

Who has argued that each act is organised around a specific crisis, bringing around an anagnorisis and a peripeteia?

Answer 1

Brian Johnston

Question 2

What did Brian Johnston argue about the miracles?

Answer 2

It has a different meaning in each act, so that the earlier meaning of the word is progressively deconstructed and replaced

Question 3

What has Toril Moi stated about the men during the tarantella?

Answer 3

‘Their gaze de-souls her and turns her into a mechanic doll’

Question 4

What did Edmund Goose describe A Doll’s House as?

Answer 4

‘Really a domestic family drama, dealing with contemporary problems in regard to marriage’

Question 5

Mona Caird argued that ‘common respectable marriage’ was what?

Answer 5

‘The most hypocritical form of woman-purchase’

Question 6

Who argued that ‘the economical independence of woman is the first condition of free marriage’?

Answer 6

Mona Caird

Question 7

Who coined the phrase ‘New Woman’ in 1894?

Answer 7

Sarah Grand

Question 8

“Death of Henrik Ibsen” Obituary, The Guardian: 26th May 1906.

Answer 8

‘Ibsen appalled us with sudden glimpses into the abysses of human nature’