Hedda Gabler - (Student Editions) Annotated by Henrik Johan Ibsen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This landmark version is fully annotated with a commentary and chronology of Ibsen's life and work.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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, Hedda decides to take drastic and fatal action. <p/>Universally condemned in 1890 when it was written, <i>Hedda Gabler</i> 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, who has no means of finding personal fulfilment in the stifling world of late nineteenth-century bourgeois society. Too frightened of scandal to become involved with a brilliant, wayward writer, she opts for a conventional but loveless marriage in the hope of finding surrogate satisfaction through her husband's career. <p/>Blending comedy and tragedy disconcertingly together, Ibsen probes the thwarted aspirations and hidden anxieties of his characters against a background of contemporary social conditions and attitudes.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright and poet whose realistic, symbolic and often controversial plays revolutionised European theatre. He is widely regarded as the father of modern drama. His acclaimed plays include <i>A Doll's House</i>, <i>Ghosts</i>, <i>Hedda Gabler</i>, <i>An Enemy of the People</i> and <i>The Pillars of the Community</i>. His centenary is celebrated in 2006.</p>
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