... the connotations and ideologies of performance. Performance, and its effectiveness, is greatly governed by the audience being performed to. For example, in the late nineteenth century Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Doll's House" for a male-dominated, class-orientated society where emphasis was given to reputation and social status. These connotations were also carried through in to personal, marital lives and the fulfilment ... duty to herself - thus forcing us to interpret the play and characters within it in an entirely different light. It is this difference in interpretation that highlights th...

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