Hedda Gabler
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Hedda Gabler ( Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈhɛ̂dːɑ ˈɡɑ̀ːblər]) is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The world premiere was staged on 31 January 1891 at the Residenztheater in Munich. Ibsen himself was in attendance, although he remained back-stage. [1] The play has been canonized as a masterpiece within the genres of ...
- Henrik Ibsen, Una Mary Ellis-Fermor
- 1890
Jürgen Tesman and Hedda Tesman (nee Hedda Gabler) are newlyweds. They have just returned from a six-month honeymoon. Hedda is aristocratic and hard to please. Throughout the play, it becomes apparent that Hedda is pregnant. At the beginning of Act 1, Tesman wakes to find his Aunt Julle has arrived for a visit.
- Henrik Ibsen, Una Mary Ellis-Fermor
- 1890
Hedda Gabler: summary. Hedda Gabler has married a rather dull academic, a cultural historian named Jørgen Tesman, but she continues to use her maiden name. At the beginning of the play, they have just returned from their long honeymoon. Tesman appears to have a glittering academic future ahead of him, and a professorship is in the offing ...
Jan 12, 2023 · Hedda Gabler was published in Copenhagen on December 16, 1890. This was the first of Ibsen's plays to be translated from proof-sheets and published in England and America almost simultaneously with its first appearance in Scandinavia.
Hedda Gabler, a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, was first published in 1890. The play is a character study of the title character, a woman trapped in a loveless marriage who seeks to control and manipulate those around her. Ibsen's exploration of Hedda’s inner turmoil and the consequences of societal expectations makes Hedda Gabler ...
Hedda Gabler is a play written by Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright. It was published in 1890 and produced the following year. It consists of four main acts. It is considered as a classic example of realism that depicts the theater of the nineteenth century, and the world of drama.
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Hedda Gabler is particularly indebted to Shakespeare’s plays Othello and Antony and Cleopatra, for Ibsen’s portrait of Hedda draws on the character of the devilish Iago in the former and the melodramatic, charismatic Cleopatra in the latter. Like Iago, Hedda is egotistical, sadistic, and deceptive, and, to some minds, both characters are motiveless in their acts of destruction.
