A Doll's House is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It concerns the lives of a group of middle class Norwegians in the 1870s and deals with themes such as appearances the power of money and the place of women in a patriarchal society. Hedda Gabler drama in four acts by Henrik Ibsen published in 1890 and produced the following year. The work reveals Hedda Gabler as a selfish cynical woman bored by her marriage to the scholar Jørgen Tesman.