Hedda Gabler (Rudall, trans.)

Hedda Gabler (Rudall, trans.)

Hedda Gabler (Rudall, trans.)

Henrik Ibsen, Nicholas Rudall

Hedda Gabler (Rudall, trans.)

Hedda Gabler (Rudall, trans.)

Henrik Ibsen, Nicholas Rudall

Overview

Ibsen's great social drama of a caged woman in the late nineteenth century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom. Mr. Rudall's translation makes Hedda Gabler beautifully speakable and playable for today's audiences.

Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania (now Oslo) from her honeymoon. Her husband is Jørgen Tesman, an aspiring, young, reliable (but not brilliant) academic who has combined research with their honeymoon. It becomes clear in the course of the play that she has never loved him but has married him for reasons pertaining to the boring nature of her life. It is also suggested that she may be pregnant.

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Authors

Henrik Ibsen

At age 23, Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) became theatre director and resident playwright of the new National Theatre at Bergen, charged with creating a national drama. He directed the Norwegian Theatre in Kristiana from 1857 to 1863, when the theatre went bankrupt. He then set off ...

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Author

Nicholas Rudall