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  • Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

    Henrik Ibsen, Una Ellis-Fermor

    Paperback (Penguin Classics, March 30, 1951)
    In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of his past at the expense of another man’s reputation, while in The Wild Duck (1884) an idealist, believing he must tell the truth at any cost, destroys a family by exposing the lie behind his friend’s marriage. And Hedda Gabler (1890) portrays an unhappily married woman who is unable to break free from the conventional life she has created for herself, with tragic results for the entire family.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
  • Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

    Henrik Ibsen, Una Ellis-Fermor

    eBook (Penguin, Oct. 30, 2003)
    In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of his past at the expense of another man’s reputation, while in The Wild Duck (1884) an idealist, believing he must tell the truth at any cost, destroys a family by exposing the lie behind his friend’s marriage. And Hedda Gabler (1890) portrays an unhappily married woman who is unable to break free from the conventional life she has created for herself, with tragic results for the entire family.
  • Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

    Henrik Ibsen

    Hardcover (Amereon Limited, July 1, 2003)
    Ibsen's three dramas probe the actions and emotions of characters trapped by psychological, moral, and social conflicts.
  • Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

    Henrik Ibsen

    Hardcover (Yestermorrow, Aug. 10, 1998)
    Ibsen's three dramas probe the actions and emotions of characters trapped by psychological, moral, and social conflicts.
  • Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

    Henrik Ibsen

    Paperback (Prentice Hall, July 3, 2003)
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  • Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

    Henrik Ibsen

    Paperback (Penguin, March 15, 1964)
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  • Hedda Gabler and other plays

    Henrik Ibsen

    Hardcover (Penguin Books, March 15, 1961)
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  • HEDDA GABLER AND OTHER PLAYS

    Henrik Ibsen

    Paperback (Bantam Classics, June 1, 1995)
    Four plays by a master dramatist include Hedda Gabler, a story of manipulation and obsession, the satirical Peer Gynt, the tragic Master Builder, and the thought-provoking Little Eyolf. Original.
  • Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

    Henrik Ibsen, Una Ellis-Fermor

    Mass Market Paperback (Penguin Books, March 15, 1964)
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  • Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

    Henrik Isben

    Paperback (Penguin Books, March 15, 1977)
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  • Hedda Gabler and other plays

    Henrik Ibsen

    Paperback (Penguin Books, March 15, 1967)
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  • Hedda Gabler: A Play

    Henrik Ibsen, William Archer, Edmund Gosse

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jan. 6, 2016)
    Hedda GablerBy Henrik IbsenTranslated by Edmund Gosse and William ArcherHedda, the daughter of an aristocratic and enigmatic general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania (now Oslo) from her honeymoon. Her husband is George Tesman, a young, aspiring, and reliable (but not brilliant) academic who continued his research during their honeymoon. It becomes clear in the course of the play that she has never loved him but married him because she thinks her years of youthful abandon are over. It is also suggested that she may be pregnant.The reappearance of George's academic rival, Eilert Lovborg, throws their lives into disarray. Eilert, a writer, is also a recovered alcoholic who has wasted his talent until now. Thanks to a relationship with Hedda's old schoolmate Thea Elvsted (who has left her husband for him), Eilert shows signs of rehabilitation and has just published a bestseller in the same field as George. When Hedda and Eilert talk privately together, it becomes apparent that they are former lovers.From Munich, on June 29, 1890, Ibsen wrote to the Swedish poet, Count Carl Soilsky: "Our intention has all along been to spend the summer in the Tyrol again. But circumstances are against our doing so. I am at present engaged upon a new dramatic work, which for several reasons has made very slow progress, and I do not leave Munich until I can take with me the completed first draft. There is little or no prospect of my being able to complete it in July." Ibsen did not leave Munich at all that season. On October 30 he wrote: "At present I am utterly engrossed in a new play. Not one leisure hour have I had for several months." Three weeks later (November 20) he wrote to his French translator, Count Prozor: "My new play is finished; the manuscript went off to Copenhagen the day before yesterday.... It produces a curious feeling of emptiness to be thus suddenly separated from a work which has occupied one's time and thoughts for several months, to the exclusion of all else. But it is a good thing, too, to have done with it. The constant intercourse with the fictitious personages was beginning to make me quite nervous." To the same correspondent he wrote on December 4: "The title of the play is Hedda Gabler. My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda, as a personality, is to be regarded rather as her father's daughter than as her husband's wife. It was not my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems. What I principally wanted to do was to depict human beings, human emotions, and human destinies, upon a groundwork of certain of the social conditions and principles of the present day."So far we read the history of the play in the official "Correspondence."(A) Some interesting glimpses into the poet's moods during the period between the completion of The Lady from the Sea and the publication of Hedda Gabler are to be found in the series of letters to Fraulein Emilie Bardach, of Vienna, published by Dr. George Brandes.(B) This young lady Ibsen met at Gossensass in the Tyrol in the autumn of 1889. The record of their brief friendship belongs to the history of The Master Builder rather than to that of Hedda Gabler, but the allusions to his work in his letters to her during the winter of 1889 demand some examination.