A Doll’s House, play in three acts by Henrik Ibsen, published in Norwegian as Et dukkehjem in 1879 and performed the same year. The play revolves on a regular family—Torvald Helmer, a bank lawyer, and his wife, Nora, and their three tiny children. Torvald supposes himself the ethical member of the family, while his wife adopts the part of the lovely and reckless little lady in order to impress him.