Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen ; translated by Michael Meyer ; with commentary and notes by David Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906.

Contributor:

Meyer, Michael Leverson.

Thomas, David.

Series:

Methuen student editions

Methuen drama.

Methuen drama

Methuen student edition

Standardized Title:

Hedda Gabler. English

Language:

English

Norwegian

Subjects (All):

Women--Europe--Social conditions--19th century--Drama.

Women.

Social conditions.

Europe.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

110 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the Norwegian.

Summary:

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 fulfillment 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.

"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama."-George Steiner

Contents:

Henrik Ibsen: 1828-1906 iv

Plot xi

The biographical and historical context xxiii

The geographical and stage environment xxxiii

The relationships

Hedda and Tesman xlvi

Hedda and Brack lii

Hedda and Loevborg lvi

Hedda Gabler in context lxv

Hedda Gabler on stage lxix

Hedda Gabler 1.

Notes:

This translation originally published: 1974.

ISBN:

0413770702

OCLC:

48753982