Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler Author: Henrik Ibsen
First Performance: 1891, Munich
Published: 1890
First English Translation: 1891
Genre: Trag. in 4 acts; Norwegian prose
Setting: Tesman's home, Norway, 1880s
Cast: 3m, 4f
Hedda Gabler has married the boring academic Jørgen Tesman. After a long honeymoon the now pregnant Hedda looks forward to a life of tedium, relieved only by visits from a family friend, Judge Brack. Another surprise visitor is Ejlert Løvborg, with whom she was formerly very close. Through the efforts of Hedda's friend Thea Elvsted, the dissolute Løvborg has become a reformed character and has written an amazing thesis, which will secure the professorship sought by Tesman. When invited out to a male gathering, Løvborg refuses, until challenged by Hedda to celebrate his new-found...
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