Hedda Gabler

<p>Too frightened of scandal to become involved with a brilliant writer Hedda Gabler opts instead for a conventional but loveless marriage. But when her first love returns with a masterpiece that might threaten her husband's career Hedda decides to take drastic and fatal action. <p/>Universally condemned in 1890 when it was written <i>Hedda Gabler</i> has subsequently become one of Ibsen's most performed and studied plays. Blending comedy and tragedy Ibsen probes the thwarted aspirations and hidden anxieties of his characters against a backdrop of contemporary social Habits and hypocrisies. <p/>This Methuen Drama Student Edition is published with Michael Meyer's classic translation and with commentary and notes by Dr. Sophie Duncan. These offer a contemporary lens on the play's gender politics and consider some key twentieth and twenty-first century productions of <i>Hedda Gabler</i> which include actresses like Maggie Smith Harriet Walker and Ruth Wilson taking on the iconic titular role.</p>