Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Born at Skien, Norway, in 1828, Henrik Ibsen was the son of a merchant family that for a few years of his life remained well-to-do. In 1836, however, Ibsen’s fat...
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The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) developed realistic techniques that changed the entire course of Western drama. There is very little in modern drama that does not owe a debt to him.H...
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"In the English-speaking world today Henrik Ibsen has become one of the three major classics of the theatre," wrote Martin Esslin in an essay included in Ibsen and the Theatre: The Dramatist in Produc...
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One of the many social issues dealt with in Ibsen's predicament plays is the lack of freedom bestowed upon women limiting them to a domestic life. In Hedda Gabler, Hedda struggles with an independent ...
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In "Hedda Gabler", "Ghosts" and "A Doll's House", all by Henrik Ibsen, contain a female protagonist who must find a way to get out of the life they have because their husband or father figure will no...
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Dramatic irony is used in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire to enrich the audience's appreciation of the plays and to add another dimension to the play's mea...
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For Maxim Gorki and Henrik Ibsen, the "the surprise ending" is a device to highlight the extreme desperation and hopelessness man is often faced. In both cases, the plays end with an act of suicide -...
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In the play Hedda Gabler, the author Henrik Ibsen portrays Hedda Gabler as a control freak who is overly concerned with society's opinion of her. He creates a character that treats others in a demean...
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The acclaimed avant-garde director Ivo van Hove has come up with an unusual attempt to invigorate Molière’s 17th-century masterpiece The Misanthrope: He’...
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It’s a pity the garbage dump is missing from the Roundabout Theatre’s revival of Joe Orton’s vintage 1964 black comedy, Entertaining Mr. Sloane. After all, the English master of a...
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It’s a pity the garbage dump is missing from the Roundabout Theatre’s revival of Joe Orton’s vintage 1964 black comedy, Entertaining Mr. Sloane. After all, the English master of a...
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It’s with great joy and excitement that I report the triumphant opening of Spring Awakening on Broadway. A kind of miracle is happening at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. With its superb ro...
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It’s with great joy and excitement that I report the triumphant opening of Spring Awakening on Broadway. A kind of miracle is happening at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. With its superb ro...
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A word in the deaf ears of Oscar Eustis, the new artistic director of the Public Theater:
When you produced Macbeth in Central Park last summer, your claim that it was a timely war play for “...
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Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Freedom in "Hedda Gabler"
Van Hove\'d5s Misanthrope: An Orgy of Garbage and Junk Food
