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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Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Women, Drama, Social conditions, Married people, Norwegian Domestic drama, Hedda Gabler (Ibsen, Henrik), Dictionaries, English language, French, Translations into English, Fiction, open_syllabus_project, Norwegian drama, English drama, Translations from Norwegian, Pt8868 .a323 1990, 839.8/226, Theater, Therapeutic use, Drama (dramatic works by one author), English literature, Germanic literature, Man-woman relationships -- Drama, Women -- Social conditions -- Drama, Identity (Psychology) -- Drama, Norwegian drama -- Translations into English, Decorative cloth bindingsPeople
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)Times
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Hedda Gabler
2005, ICON Classics
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in English
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Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: English version
2001, Dramatists Play Service
in English
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Hedda Gabler: a drama in four acts. Translated from the Norwegian by Edmund Gosse.
1891, W. Heinemann
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