Ibsen vs. Ibsen Or: Two Versions Of A Doll's House

Two SIDES OF IBSEN WERE AT WORK, and sometimes in conflict, when he wrote and re-wrote A Doll's House. First there was the artist and craftsman; second, the social thinker-Ibsen preferred the term 'prophet'-insistent that the craftsman's hand weave his social ideas into the artist's re-dreaming of the world. Artist-craftsman and thinker wrestled fiercely with the materials of A Doll's House and with each other; their struggle explains some of the play's curious problems particularly why the final scene wrenches the play out of shape.