Description
| Product ID: | 9781350262720 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Modern Plays |
| Title: | A Doll's House |
| Authors: | Author: Henrik Ibsen |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Plays, playscripts, Plays, playscripts, Colonialism and imperialism, Feminism and feminist theory, Politics and government, Colonialism & imperialism, Feminism & feminist theory, Politics & government, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Ireland |
| Description: | Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat – Tom.Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her.Tanika Gupta reimagines Ibsen’s classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race. Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat – Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her. Tanika Gupta reimagines Ibsen’s classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race. |
| Imprint Name: | Methuen Drama |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-05-13 |
