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Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen

When Oscar Wilde first saw Hedda Gabler in 1890, he said, "I felt pity and terror, as though the play had been Greek." Compared to Ibsen's earlier plays--A Doll's House, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People--Hedda Gabler was different. In this play, we find some of Ibsen's most memorable prose in a tragic interplay of psychoscape and linguistic drama.
Hedda Gabler
In Hedda Gabler, we find some of Ibsen's most memorable prose in a tragic interplay of psycho scape and linguistic drama.
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler does not offer any easy answers. The play is a powerful and emotionally potent portrayal of a woman's alienation from and suffocation by the bourgeois society that she has become a part. Hedda Gabler features one of the strongest female characters to appear upon the stage. The work offers the theatre one of its most scintillating and exciting dramatic works. Read more about Hedda Gabler.
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
Read "Hedda Gabler," by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906).
Henrik Ibsen's Plays
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright, famous for A Doll's House, The Master Builder, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, and Hedda Gabler.
Review: Hedda Gabler
Now, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival premiers Dr. Jerry Turner's all-new translation of the Ibsen classic, "Hedda Gabler." Turner's other translations for OSF include Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," "Ghosts," "An Enemy of the People," "Brand," "The Wild Duck," and "Rosmersholm."

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