An edition of Hedda Gabler (1890)

Hedda Gabler

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Henrik Ibsen
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An edition of Hedda Gabler (1890)

Hedda Gabler

  • 4.1 (8 ratings) ·
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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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The Floating Press
Language
English

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Hedda Gabler
2009, The Floating Press
eBook in English
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Hedda Gabler
March 23, 2007, BiblioBazaar
Paperback in English
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Hedda Gabler
November 30, 2005, Dodo Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: English version
2001, Dramatists Play Service
in English
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Hedda Gabler
1990, Dover
in English
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Hedda Gabler
1990, Dover
in English
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Hedda Gabler
1974, Eyre Methuen
in English - 2nd revised ed.
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Hedda Gabler.
1961, Appleton-Century-Crofts
in English
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Hedda Gabler, The master builder
1907, C. Scribner's sons
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Cover of: Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler: a drama in four acts
1891, United States book company
in English

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OL24295454M
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9781775416425
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5364660C-B763-4041-A2E1-C537F0AEA810

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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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August 31, 2013 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format 'E-book' to 'eBook'
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