Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
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16 Facts About Hedda Gabler
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Hedda Gabler dramatizes the experiences of the title character, Hedda, the daughter of a general, who is trapped in a marriage and a house that she does not want.
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Hedda Gabler's husband is George Tesman, a young, aspiring, and reliable academic who continued his research during their honeymoon.
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George and Hedda Gabler are financially overstretched, and George tells Hedda Gabler that he will not be able to finance the regular entertaining or luxurious housekeeping that she had been expecting.
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Hedda Gabler says nothing to contradict Eilert or to reassure Thea.
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Hedda Gabler is shocked to discover from Judge Brack that Eilert's death, in a brothel, was messy and probably accidental; this "ridiculous and vile" death contrasts with the "beautiful and free" one that Hedda Gabler had imagined for him.
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Hedda Gabler tells Hedda that if he reveals what he knows, a scandal will likely arise around her.
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Hedda Gabler realizes that this places Brack in a position of power over her.
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The others in the room assume that Hedda Gabler is simply firing shots, and they follow the sound to investigate.
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In Krutch's analysis, Hedda Gabler is one of the first fully developed neurotic female protagonists of literature.
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Hedda Gabler's aims and her motives have a secret personal logic of their own.
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Hedda Gabler gets what she wants, but what she wants is not anything that normal people would acknowledge to be desirable.
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Hedda Gabler will be portrayed by Amanda Adams and Judge Brack by Nigel Cole.
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In 2014, Matthew John adapted Hedda Gabler starring Rita Ramnani, David R Butler, and Samantha E Hunt.
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Hedda Gabler performed the song live in 1998, with Siouxsie Sioux, and in London with a band and a 19 piece orchestra in his Paris 1919 tour.
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