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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 ...
- 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
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: 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 ...
Article History. Hedda Gabler, drama in four acts by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1890 and produced the following year. The work reveals Hedda Gabler as a selfish, cynical woman bored by her marriage to the scholar Jørgen Tesman. Her father’s pair of pistols provide intermittent diversion, as do the attentions of the ne’er-do-well Judge Brack.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 ...
Full Book Analysis. It is fitting that the title of the play is Hedda's maiden name, Hedda Gabler, for the play is to a large extent about the formerly aristocratic Hedda's inability to adjust to the bourgeois life into which she has married. Her tragedy lies not only in her own suicide but in her desire that Ejlert should have a "beautiful ...
