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Hedda Gabler
Ibsen, Henrik Johan; Baitz, Jon Robin
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Description for Hedda Gabler
Paperback / so. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
In 1890, Henrik Ibsen premiered Hedda Gabler, a play questioning the role of women in Victorian society. Some audiences have viewed Gabler as a woman driven to desperation simply because her world has turned out to be less charmed than she hoped. For others, she is a victim of her times, unwilling to devote herself, as was expected of her, to the duties of home. Jon Robin Baitz has brushed away the cobwebs, and he serves as an ambassador from Ibsen's age to our own, preserving the intensity of the original but translating it into a spare, contemporary idiom. His ... Read more
In 1890, Henrik Ibsen premiered Hedda Gabler, a play questioning the role of women in Victorian society. Some audiences have viewed Gabler as a woman driven to desperation simply because her world has turned out to be less charmed than she hoped. For others, she is a victim of her times, unwilling to devote herself, as was expected of her, to the duties of home. Jon Robin Baitz has brushed away the cobwebs, and he serves as an ambassador from Ibsen's age to our own, preserving the intensity of the original but translating it into a spare, contemporary idiom. His ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780802138064
SKU
V9780802138064
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