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Hedda Gabler, the daughter of an aristocratic general, has just returned to her villa from her honeymoon. Her husband is an aspiring, young, and reliable academic who continued his research during their honeymoon. Hedda has never loved him and married him because she thinks her years of youthful abandon are over. Jealousy, murder and controversy follows, providing us with much food for thought. Was Hedda a victim of circumstance or a manipulative villain?

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen - Hedda, the daughter of an aristocratic general, returns to her villa in Kristiania (now Oslo) from her honeymoon. Her husband is George Tesman, a young academic who continued his research during their honeymoon. It becomes clear during the play that she has never loved him but married him because she thinks her youthful years are over. It is also suggested that she may be pregnant. Any profits made from the sale of this book will go towards supporting the Freeriver Community project, a project that aims to support community and encourage well-being. To learn more about the Freeriver Community project please visit the website- www.freerivercommunity.com

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen - Hedda, the daughter of an aristocratic general, returns to her villa in Kristiania (now Oslo) from her honeymoon. Her husband is George Tesman, a young academic who continued his research during their honeymoon. It becomes clear during the play that she has never loved him but married him because she thinks her youthful years are over. It is also suggested that she may be pregnant.

Hedda, the famous daughter of General Gabler, married George Tesman out of desperation, but she finds life with him to be dull and tedious. Interesting events unfold. Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is recognized as a classic of realism, nineteenth-century theatre, and world drama. The title character, Hedda, is considered one of the great dramatic roles in theatre. The play has been adapted for the screen a number of times, from the silent film era onwards, in several languages.

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 fulfilment 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.

“A great play. A lean script. Public domain. You’re ready to run!” The honeymoon is over, and Hedda is feeling trapped. Reared in privilege as the daughter of the great General Gabler, she has married somewhat beneath her station into the ‘genteel poverty’ offered by her husband, George Tesman, a well-meaning and industrious academic, who is doing all he can to meet her every whim. It is not enough. Her needs are deeper. And darker. Even as she struggles to restrain herself from acting on wild impulses, she begins to crave the fatal power to mold someone else’s destiny. That someone else turns out to be the only one in the world that Hedda might in fact love. Will Hedda awaken a sense of empathy before things go too far? Can she find meaning in a life so filled with limitations? ‘Unfettered Classics’ offers a careful editing of Ibsen’s brilliant character study that retains all the play’s dynamism while reducing its play time by nearly an hour.