description: Hedda Gabler (1890) was a study of a neurotic woman. Hedda, twenty-nine years old, has married down, is pregnant with an unwanted child, and bored by her husband. Before marriage she has flirted with the drunken poet Loevborg. She plots to the ruin of Loevborg by burning his manuscript on the future of civilization. Judge Brack, who lusts after Hedda, discovers that Hedda has instigated Loevborg's accidental suicide - he has died in a bordello. Hedda cries: Oh, why does everything I touch become mean and ludicrous? It's like a curse! Brack gives her the choice either of public exposure or of becoming his mistress. But Hedda chooses suicide when she falls into his power.
language: English
title: Hedda Gabler
titlecomplete: Hedda Gabler
characters: Thea Elvsted, Eilert Lövborg (Ejlert Løvborg), George (Jørgen) Tesman, Juliana (Juliane) Tesman, Bertha (Berte), Hedda Gabler Tesman, Judge Brack
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, Plays, Read For School, School, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 35839
places: Norway
publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)