Agnete (play)

[1][2][3] The play is reminiscent of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in several respects.

"[4] She has a mixed past: she comes from a good family, is beautiful, and is divorced from a man who later went bankrupt and therefore could not make a living.

To survive, she steals, pilfering from friends, arranging fake collection drives, and the like.

She falls in love with Rikard Berg, the lawyer who handled her divorce case.

Edvard Beyer wrote that "The play does not excel in having great originality.