Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
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Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler was first published in 1890. Despite premiering the next year to negative reviews, the play since been hailed as a classic work of realism, with the character Hedda being considered by some critics as one of the great dramatic roles; a female Hamlet. Gabler is actually the character's maiden name rather than her name by marriage (which is Hedda Tesman); on entitling it this Ibsen wrote: "My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father's daughter than her husband's wife."
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Drama, Women, Social conditions, Translations into English, Married people, Fiction, open_syllabus_project, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Norwegian drama, English drama, Translations from Norwegian, Pt8868 .a323 1990, 839.8/226People
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)Times
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Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: English version
2001, Dramatists Play Service
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0822217848 9780822217848
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"A spacious, handsome, and tastefully furnished drawing room, decorated in dark colours."
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A masterpiece of modern theater, Hedda Gabler is a dark psychological drama whose powerful and reckless heroine has tested the mettle of leading actresses of every generation since its first production in Norway in 1890.
Ibsen's Hedda is an aristocratic and spiritually hollow woman, nearly devoid of redeeming virtues. George Bernard Shaw described her as having "no conscience, no conviction … she remains mean, envious, insolent, cruel, in protest against others' happiness." Her feeling of anger and jealousy toward a former schoolmate and her ruthless manipulation of her husband and an earlier admirer lead her down a destructive path that ends abruptly with her own tragic demise.
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