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"A Doll's House" was published on December 4, 1879 and the first performance was in Copenhagen on December 21, 1879. It was considered to be a publishing event, and the amount of copies which were intended to be printed were 8,000 and was sold out immediately. The author was Henrik Ibsen, who was born on March 20, 1828 in Skien, Norway. He was the second son of five other siblings of a very fortunate family. In 1835 he moved away and returned to Skien after 8 years, then to Grimstad to study as an apothecary's assistant. "A Doll's House" was one of the last plays written in Ibsen's realism period.

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