By Henrik Ibsen
The NHB Drama Classics sequence offers the world's maximum performs in reasonable, hugely readable variants for college kids, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the sequence are obtainable introductions (focusing at the play's theatrical and ancient historical past, including an writer biography, key dates and proposals for extra analyzing) and the entire textual content, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by means of major specialists within the box, are actual and principally actable. The versions of English-language performs comprise a word list of surprising phrases and words to assist understanding.
A Doll's House is Ibsen's progressive story of Nora's awakening to her want for a lifetime of her personal.
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Marie Taglioni, the first ballerina as we understand that term today, crossed the stage of the Paris Opéra in three bounds when she was fifteen, "leaping in time" as no dancer had before. Encounters with Music To release the potential in a child prodigy, music itself must fascinate and beguile, which it has always done by its very nature. An infant climbing onto the bench to strike the keys of the piano is a familiar domestic occurrence, one that is usually terminated quickly by a parent whose patience runs short under the barrage of noisy play activity.
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