AS Byatt on the heroine of Ibsen's A Doll's House
With a new production of A Doll's House about to open at the Donmar in London, AS Byatt looks again at Ibsen's tragic heroine - whose plight she once thought so shocking - and finds her silly and insensitiveA Doll's House was, and is shocking. Halvdan Koht, an early biographer of Ibsen, records that it "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life" and "pronounced a death sentence on accepted social ethics". As a stud…