Hedda Gabler

Paperback, 112 pages

English language

Published June 30, 2006 by Echo Library.

ISBN:
978-1-84702-469-5
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OCLC Number:
85767168

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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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Subjects

  • Drama texts, plays
  • Drama
  • Plays / Drama
  • Plays
  • Continental European
  • Drama / Continental European