Hedda Gabler

Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in the stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage. When writer Eilert Loevborg, an old flame returns to Hedda''s life with a masterpiece that might threaten her husband''s career, Hedda decides to take drastic and fatal action. Universally condemned in 1890 when it was written, da Gabler has since become one of Ibsen''s most frequently performed plays. Its title role is elusive and complex: Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, who has no means of finding personal fulfilment in the stifling world of late nineteenth-century bourgeois society. Too frightened of scandal to become involved with a brilliant, wayward writer, she opts for a conventional but loveless marriage in the hope of finding surrogate satisfaction through her husband''s career. Blending comedy and tragedy disconcertingly together, Ibsen probes the thwarted aspirations and hidden anxieties of his characters against a background of contemporary social conditions and attitudes.>

Product details

• Authors: Henrik Ibsen
• Assisted by: David Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 28.01.2016
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781474261371
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-6137-1
• Pages: 208
• Series: Student Editions; Student Editions
• Subjects: DRAMA / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Norwegian, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights