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A three-act play written by Henrik Ibsen and a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life". And in 2001, UNESCO has inscribed Ibsen's autographed manuscripts of A Doll's House on the Memory of the World Register, in recognition of their historical value.