About this title: Condemned by British critics 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, trapped in the stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage. When writer Eilert Loevborg, an old flame returns to Hedda's life with a masterpiece that might threaten her husband's career under his arm, Hedda decides to take drastic and fatal action, drawing all in her doomed circle into a catastrophe of her own design. Blending comedy and tragedy together, Ibsen ...
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Covers 'rubbed', w/slight edge-wear. Pp lightly 'tanned'. Text in tight book, all VG. Text in English, Norwegian. Trade paperback (US). 128 p. Patchwork Quilt Design. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harlan Davidson
Date Published: 1961
ISBN-13:9780882950440ISBN:0882950444
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Softcover, some coverwear & creasing, owner-name & tanned, but--NO stains, tears, or other writing in tight & clean copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 109 pp. Crofts Classics. Audience: General/trade. This Ibsen stuff is a dreadful downer & so translated by Alan Downer (! ), here he is. I know, you are only buying the wretched thing because English departments are dens of similar snivelling...and I will post your order as soon as it is received. Thank you. read more
Description: Fine. 0486264696 Excellent Condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, NO marks or creases, this book is Near NEW! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780486264691ISBN:0486264696
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. A great copy with only minor rubbing to cover. Pages are like new! An excellent copy! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 80 p. Dover Thrift Editions. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fair. Ex-Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Wraps scuffed and scraped with edgewear. Dampstain on sheet edges and lower edge of first ten sheets. read more
"Looove it. Began this class with a tendency to knock 'strong/insane' female characters (e.g. Phedre), but by the time I got to Hedda, I found myself defending her in class. As a 'free and equal' female of the 21st century, it is difficult to imagine a world where one can feel unbearably constrained by society."
"This play was really kind of ridiculous. This lady was bbored so she ruined the lives of a bunch of people, including her own. i guess that is th emoral though."
"This was stunning. I was impressed with the execution. The author is a genius. Exactly the right information is portrayed perfectly along the way, some foreshadowing. Amazing."
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