Hedda Gabler (PDF)
Synopsis
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, Hedda 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.Book details
- Author:
- Henrik Ibsen, Michael Meyer, David Thomas, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens
- ISBN:
- 9780413770707
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing / Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2018-01-30
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2002
- Copyright by:
- Henrik Ibsen, Michael Meyer, David Thomas, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Drama, Plays and Theater, Literature and Fiction