by Henrik Ibsen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783150027738
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«Hedda Gabler» is the four-act drama by Henrik Ibsen, published by Reclam in paperback (104 pages, in German).
Written in 1890, the play portrays Hedda Gabler, a high-society woman trapped in a conventional, loveless marriage. Intelligent and ambitious, yet unable to find personal satisfaction in the rigid bourgeois world of the late 19th century, she tries to exert control over her surroundings and her fate, with tragic consequences. Ibsen thus addresses power, freedom, repression and social conventions.
The work belongs to the Reclams Universal-Bibliothek collection (no. 2773) and is presented in a German translation by Hans Egon Gerlach, with the subtitle «Schauspiel in vier Akten».
Frequently a school text, it will appeal to students and fans of classical theatre and 19th-century Scandinavian literature.
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".
