Hedda Gabler | Essays and Criticism

  • Secondary Female Characters in Hedda Gabler

    In this essay the author investigates the significance of the secondary female characters in Hedda Gabler, with a focus on their function both as foils to Hedda and as women who themselves fail to meet the woman's primary role as wifemother in the conventional thinking of the time.

  • Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Ghosts

    In this excerpt, Cardullo compares and contrasts elements of legacy in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Ghosts.

  • 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.