Home on the Stage

As a serious drama set in an ordinary middle-class home, Ibsen''s A Doll''s House established a new politics of the interior that was to have a lasting impact upon twentieth-century drama. In this innovative study, Nicholas Grene traces the changing forms of the home on the stage through nine of the greatest of modern plays and playwrights. From Chekhov''s The Cherry Orchard through to Williams'' ...