critics – a doll's house

Joan Templeton,

wrote that the “power” of the play lies in its “feminism” in her 2015 work, Ibsen’s Women. This is a revision of her previous statements on “A Doll’s House”, which she suggested to “speak” to the “truth of the human soul” rather than be a political piece of work.

Michael Meter

disagrees with the feminist discourse on A Doll’s House. He argues that he would never “stoop to [such] issues” (likely referring to feminism); rather, “A Doll’s House” is about the “poetry of the soul”

A critical view of Nora is shared by Meyer, who argues she is “confused” and “illogical”.

Oswald Crawford

Writer Oswald Crawford suggested in 1891 that although Nora is as “charming as doll-women may be charming," she is “unprincipled”.

Maurice Valency

American playwright Maurice Valency abruptly states that Nora is an example of “female hysteria”, suggesting that she is “unstable, impulsive, immune… from guilt” and “not especially feminine