Additional Resources for Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

This Study Guide consists of approximately 61 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Hedda Gabler.

Additional Resources for Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

This Study Guide consists of approximately 61 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Hedda Gabler.
This section contains 336 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Hedda Gabler Study Guide

Barranger, Milly S. Barron's Simplified Approach to Henrik Ibsen, Barron's Educational Series, 1969.

This brief monograph offers uncomplicated readings of Hedda Gabler and two other major Ibsen plays:

The Wild Duck and Ghosts. It is a helpful guide to interpretation focusing on character, themes, and dramatic technique.

Durbach, Errol. Ibsen the Romantic: Analogues of Paradise in the Later Plays, University of George Press, 1982. Durbach discusses the romantic and counter-romantic currents in Ibsen that underlies his characters' search for meaning, their efforts to redeem themselves from an inhibiting and stultifying, uncreative life. It is a search that can be destructive, as in Hedda's case.

Lyons, Charles R. Hedda Gabler: Gender, Role, and World, Twayne, 1990.

Lyons discusses both the cultural and historical milieu of Hedda Gabler, then discusses the play as a kind of mimetic snapshot of human behavior caught in that historical matrix and argues that reader responses...

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