Hedda Gabler has just returned from her honeymoon. She has married out of ennui, and is already heartily sick of her husband, who is a plodding, pedantic academic. Upon moving into her new Christiania home, she soon discovers that Thea Elvsted, an old schoolmate whom she always envied and despised, has boldly left her marriage in order to be with Eilert Lövborg, a former lover of Hedda who is trying to overcome a past life of debauchery and alcoholism by creating a revolutionary new work of philosophy and returning to respectability. Another old flame, Judge Brack, tries to wheedle his way back into Hedda’s life by any means possible. Yearning to exercise power over someone, anyone, to “mould a human destiny,” Hedda begins callously to manipulate the people around her to devastating effect. Written at the height of Ibsen’s mature period, this play has endured as one of the most-performed and most powerful of all Ibsen’s works. Hedda is both perpetrator and victim, a psychologically-complex, frustrated woman trying to assert some control over her world. Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century. Several of his plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was required to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality.
Författare:
Uppläsare:
Språk:
Engelska
Format:
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
audiobookbookThe Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
audiobookThe Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
audiobookbookThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
audiobookThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
audiobook20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
audiobookbookB. J. Harrison Reads Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
audiobookLittle Women
Louisa May Alcott
audiobookbookThe Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
audiobookbookHamlet : Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
William Shakespeare
audiobook1984
George Orwell
audiobookbookThe King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
audiobookbook
Ett dockhem
Henrik Ibsen
audiobookGengångare ; Vildanden
Henrik Ibsen
bookGhosts - Audiobook
Henrik Ibsen, Classic Audiobooks
audiobookHedda Gabler - Audiobook
Henrik Ibsen, Classic Audiobooks
audiobookA Doll's House - Audiobook
Henrik Ibsen, Classic Audiobooks
audiobookA Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
audiobookbookThe Best of the Playwrights: Tragedies and Comedies by the Masters
Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Bernard Shaw
audiobookPeer Gynt - with original colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham
Henrik Ibsen
bookHedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
audiobookbookThe Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume : Including 100+ Biographies & Memoirs of the Most Influential Women in History
Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henrik Ibsen, Kate Chopin, Grant Allen, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, H.G. Wells, Gene Stratton-Porter, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Ada Cambridge, Mary Johnston, Marietta Holley, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Virginia Woolf, Zona Gale, Elizabeth von Arnim, D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Oliphant, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Margaret Mitchell, Harriet Martineau, Nikolai Leskov, Margaret Deland, Sojourner Truth, Mary Ware Dennett, John Stuart Mill, Sarah H. Bradford, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller
bookPeer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen
audiobookEtt dockhem (lättläst)
Henrik Ibsen
book
Dagon
H.P. Lovecraft
bookThe District Doctor and Other Stories
Ivan Turgenev
bookBaseball Joe of the Silver Stars
Lester Chadwick
audiobookbookThe Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
bookDon Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
bookEugenie Grandet
Honoré De Balzac
bookRobinson Crusoe : Illustrated
Daniel Defoe
bookAround the World in Eighty Days : Illustrated
Jules Verne
bookThe Watsons :
Jane Austen
audiobookbookPersuasion
Jane Austen
bookDavid Crockett, His Life and Adventures
John S. C. Abbott
bookDaniel Boone, The Pioneer of Kentucky
John S. C. Abbott
book