Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen | Resources

Hedda Gabler Further Reading

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...
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