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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.76,0:00:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Background music ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.89,0:00:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Europe, 1879, the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in is embraced by
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.86,0:00:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supporters of feminist ideals and vilified by opponents of women's liberation. The play is quite the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.91,0:00:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sensation. The renowned Swedish dramatist August Strindberg publicly denounces Ibsen's play,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.80,0:00:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believing it will lead to the emancipation of women, and thus ruin the institution of marriage.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.14,0:01:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strindberg: All I've done is attack A Doll's House a stupid play lacking a fixed code of marriage. And
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.73,0:01:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as far as Henry Ibsen is concerned, I fear neither devil nor troll.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.61,0:01:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator (whispering): Strindberg becomes obsessed with discrediting Ibsen. In his mind, the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.40,0:01:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,similarities between the characters in Ibsen's play and Strindberg's life were too coincidental. In
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.50,0:01:33.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1884, Strindberg launches a counterattack, and writes his own version of A Doll's House in the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.25,0:01:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,controversial book Giftas, a collection of short stories dealing with the failures of marriage.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.02,0:01:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strindberg: In the end, I have nothing left but my great beautiful hatred for them. As for my Giftas, I
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.87,0:02:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wrote A Doll's House Ibsen never dreamed before.