Hedda Gabler | An Hypocrisy in Playgoing

In this review, the author examines the expectations of typical theatre-goers and the manner in which Ibsen's Hedda Gabler goes against such preconceptions—and yet still manages to be a work of popular theatre.

Eecosstoetchiayoomahnioeevahrachellopestibahntamahntafahnta ... shall I go on? No? You do not catch my meaning, when I write thus? I am to express myself, please, in plain English? If I wrote the whole of my article as I have written the beginning of it, you would, actually, refuse to read it? I am astonished. The chances are that you do not speak Italian, do not understand Italian when it is spoken. The chances are that Italian spoken from the stage of a theatre produces for you no more than the empty, though rather pretty, effect which it produces for me, and which I have tried to...

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