Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
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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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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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Hedda Gabler
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