Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
1890 · Norwegian accent
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About Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is widely considered Henrik Ibsen's most psychologically complex and theatrically powerful play. Hedda is a general's daughter trapped in a bourgeois marriage she despises, with a husband she does not love and a future she cannot control. Brilliant, destructive and utterly fascinating, she is one of the great characters in world drama.
Ibsen was unusually candid about his intentions: "It was not really my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems. What I principally wanted to do was to depict human beings, human emotions, and human destinies, upon a groundwork of certain of the social conditions and principles of the present day." The result is a character study of terrifying depth — a woman who refuses the world as it is offered to her, with catastrophic consequences.
Listen free to Hedda Gabler — Ibsen's darkest masterpiece, read with a Norwegian accent.