by Henrik Ibsen · Nick Hern Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781854598424
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«Hedda Gabler» is the play by Henrik Ibsen in a new version by Richard Eyre, published by Nick Hern Books in paperback (96 pages, in English).
After a prolonged honeymoon, Hedda Gabler returns to a home she finds suffocating. Trapped in a marriage without stimulation and an empty domestic life, she tries to satisfy her craving for control and excitement by manipulating those around her. The drama portrays the clash between individual desire and the social conventions of her time.
New version by Richard Eyre premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2005, with an introduction by the adapter. The original text was published in 1890. NHB Classic Plays series.
For lovers of classic theatre, literature students, and academic audiences interested in Ibsen's work and Richard Eyre's adaptations.
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright. He is considered one of the world's pre-eminent writers of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama". He pioneered theatrical realism but also wrote lyrical epic works. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and When We Dead Awaken. In 2014 Ibsen was considered the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Store norske leksikon describes him as "the center of the Norwegian literary canon".
