I Think That Before All Else I Am a Human Being Just As Much As You AreOr At Least I will Try to Become One. Henrik Ibsen in A Dolls House A Dolls House the threeact play by Henrik Ibsen which premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen Denmark in 1879 is one of the most wellknown and frequently performed of modern plays. It richly displays the genius with which Ibsen pioneered modern realistic prose drama. The play is significant for the way it deals with the fate of the central character