"A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society," Henrik Ibsen wrote in 1878, proving himself, in 2017 parlance, to be a woke bae. He was writing about "A Doll's House," his proto-feminist masterwork, which concludes with Nora Helmer, a restive Norwegian housewife, walking out on her husband, Torvald. The play ends with a slamming door, one of dramatic literatur…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 05:00AM on May 15, 2017