A Global Doll's House: A Digital Humanities Approach explores a very simple question: 'What accounts for the global success of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen?' Nora rivals Antigone, Carmen, Medea and Juliet as the most performed, discussed and debated female character on the international stage; and with over 2,500 global productions, A Doll's House is one of the most performed plays in the world. This new book offers an original methodological approach to the play, interrogating the entire global production history of the play using tools from the digital humanities. These tools build on...

The volume reveals an astonishing richness in the theatrical approaches to Ibsen across the world: it considers political theatre, institutional 'high art', theatre for development, queer and transgender theatre, Brechtian techniques, puppetry, post-dramatic theatre, rural village performance and avant-garde touring companies. Investigating varied renegotiations of his drama, including the work of Thomas Ostermeier in Germany and other parts of the world, versions of A Doll's House from Chile and China, The Wild Duck in Iran and productions of Peer Gynt in Zimbabwe and...