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	Hedda Gabler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hedda needed someone to support her financially, and George Tesman was the only decent man to propose to her.
		Hedda was raised a lady of the upper class, and as such she regards her beauty with high esteem.
		Hedda prefers to identify herself as the daughter of General Gabler, not the wife of George Tesman.
	www.angelfire.com /tx2/knippress/hedda.html (1488 words)

	SparkNotes: Hedda Gabler: Summary
		Jürgen Tesman and Hedda Tesman (nee Hedda Gabler) are newlyweds.
		Hedda tells Brack how bored she was on her honeymoon and how she has no special feeling for the house Tesman has gone to great lengths to buy for her, under the false impression that she desperately wanted to live there.
		Hedda does not tell him she has the manuscript; she simply gives him one of her pistols and tells him to have a beautiful death.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/heddagabler/summary.html (696 words)

	Hedda Gabler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hedda's actual name in the play is Hedda Tesman; Gabler is her maiden name.
		Hedda is shocked to discover, from the sinister Judge Brack, that Eilert's death, in a brothel, was messy and probably accidental(this is in huge contrast to the "beautiful" death that Hedda had imagined for him).
		Hedda refuses to be referred to as Tesman as for her it symbolizes imprisonment within the institution of marriage and society, whilst Gabler ebodies freedom(Ibsen also uses the name Gabler as it makes her appear as more of her father's daughter as opposed to a husbands wife).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hedda_Gabler (1079 words)

	Hedda steam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hedda Gabler dates from 1890, Martin's production from last summer, when it enjoyed success at Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theatre and then at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where it was dominated by a huge portrait of Hedda's military dad.
		General Gabler still stares down on the proceedings from an anteroom, though on the deeper Huntington stage his omnipresence is diminished.
		Hedda Gabler (note the lack of married name) is often played as a crazed neurotic with a father fixation, a female raised by an authoritarian male to be both belle and boy, then painted into a societal corner where her sex renders her impotent.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/01/01/11/HEDDA_GALBER.html (964 words)

	Hedda Gabler - a play by Henrik Ibsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hedda Gabler is one of the finest examples of dramatic technique in existence.
		In Hedda Gabler, the climax is Hedda's burning of the "child," Lövborg's MS,; that deed is the culminating point of those events, or crisis, in her life with which Ibsen, either in the play or before it, is concerned.
		Hedda's death, even, is only the logical outcome of what has gone before, and that was prepared for, foreshadowed, in the first and succeeding acts.
	www.theatredatabase.com /19th_century/henrik_ibsen_006.html (529 words)

	Hedda Gabler
		The formidable daughter of General Gabler, Hedda has recently returned from a whirlwind honeymoon tour with Aunt Julie’s nephew, George Tesman, an academic dullard whose expertise lies in the study of medieval handicrafts from the Dutch province of Brabant.
		That Hedda, a ravishing beauty of aristocratic pedigree, should have chosen the insipid and ungainly Tesman serves as a harbinger of her ultimate misfortune.
		Hedda Tesman is a woman who deems herself the social superior to those who make up her small, suffocating world.
	www.broadwaybeat.com /russell/HeddaGabler.htm (666 words)

	HEDDA GABLER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SPACE OF (THE) PLAY (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hedda Gabler, it seems, presents us with a particular version of 'liberal tragedy', that form in which the claims of an alienated individual are uncompromisingly asserted against those of a conventional society (Williams, 1966 and 1971).
		Hedda Gabler is also a calculatingly ruthless manipulator of other people's lives, and in a transitory moment of self-revelation she gives expression to the link between her desire to control and her own poverty of being in similar terms:
		At certain moments, when Hedda faces the prospect of motherhood, it is as if she finds herself haunted by the shadow of a dead or dying mother figure; and her impulse at this moment is to erase the existence, real or imagined, of any offspring she herself might have.
	human-nature.com.cob-web.org:8888 /free-associations/hand.html (10035 words)

	Hedda Gabler - Hedda Gabler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hedda Gabler performed between 1983 and 1990, when the band fell apart in a disgracious manner.
		Hedda Gabler was incorporated in 1983 by three musicians in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
		Hedda Gabler had private deamons to expell and a voice of her own, singing about life, loss and colours.
	www.hedda-gabler.nl (190 words)

	Hedda Gabler - Review - Theater - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hedda may be the most manic creature onstage, constantly rearranging the sofa cushions and tossing flowers at whim, but she is by no means the only one.
		This means that Hedda seems to be trying less to define herself against a stagnant, suffocating environment than to compete to be the wildest of them all.
		You know you’re in trouble when Hedda’s vicious and penetrating barbs fly well over the comprehension of her fellow players and land, albeit intentionally, in the middle of the audience only to produce laughter.
	theater2.nytimes.com /2006/03/03/theater/reviews/03hedd.html?8dpc (1152 words)

	Northwest Film Forum: Start to Finish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hedda Gabler is the sixth feature film produced with Northwest Film Forum in the past six years, and the fourth produced through its ambitious Start-to-Finish Program.
		Hedda Gabler is a classic Norwegian play about not fitting into your life.
		The film of Hedda Gabler was shot on location in a middle class ranch-style house at the end of a cul-de-sac, in a suburban neighborhood in Wenatchee, WA, in June and July 2002.
	www.nwfilmforum.org /wigglyworld/start2heddag.shtml (546 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com - News
		Hedda Gabler's come to town, and she ain't, as the saying goes, what she used to be.
		This is Hedda Gabler Lite, presented in Gage Williams' beautiful gridlike box, a 21st-century set piece in which rests the trappings of an 1890s sitting room, backed by giant backdrop scrims depicting the face of our heroine.
		As written, Hedda's psychotic behavior is explicable as the conduct of a demented woman who's never given her due.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/2000-02-10/stages2.html (591 words)

	Ibsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father's daughter than as her husband's wife.
		The sophisticated Hedda is cowardly whereas the unemancipated, feminine Mrs.
		Hedda and her kind were of a different breed, since they were relieved of the old responsibilities without assuming new ones and were endowed with desires for a richer life without having learned that it must be won strenuously.”
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/parade/abj76/PG/pieces/ibsen.shtml (1822 words)

	Amazon.com: Hedda Gabler (Dover Thrift Editions): Books: Henrik Ibsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hedda found that she couldn't manipulate everyone around her in order to achieve her goals either, so she put a bullet through her head because it all seemed so futile to her.
		When Judge Brack flmails Hedda, and implies that the price of his silence is her sexual favours, Hedda can't stand it anymore, that she, because of her sex and position in society, must be the object of others.
		Hedda's constant movement on the stage imply her desire to escape this world, and highlight how trapped she is. When Eilert kills himself in manner most undignified, Hedda realises that in this world there is nothing romantic and beautiful, but only something ugly and rotton at the core.
	www.amazon.com /Hedda-Gabler-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486264696 (1916 words)

	Hedda Gabler, a CurtainUp review
		The role of the beautiful and conflicted Hedda Gabler is one of a handful that has challenged actresses since the play opened in Munich in 1891.
		To bring the gun wielded in act one to its inevitable use in act four we have Hedda's interference in Elvsted's and Lovborg's lives, her relationship with Judge Brack (Harris Yulin), a family friend whose intentions are strictly dishonorable, and a lost manuscript with powerful Freudian implications.
		David Lansbury is best in the tense scene where he and Hedda, with Tesman and Brack in the next room, use the photo album of her honeymoon with Tesman as a guise for discussing their erstwhile intimate friendship in passionate whispers.
	www.curtainup.com /heddagabler.html (1464 words)

	KofPPlayers Home Page
		Hedda, the upper-crust daughter of a respected general, is now the bourgeois wife of Jurgen Tesman (Christopher DeWitt), an ineffective academic who spent most of their honeymoon digging around in libraries.
		Hedda impels the destruction of her romantic hero: the ignoble manner of his death in turn destroys her romantic idealism.
		Hedda's desire for life is great, but she lacks the courage to challenge what is acceptable behavior in the eyes of society.
	www.kofpplayers.org /Shows/Hedda_Gabler_2001/Hedda.html (938 words)

	Hedda Gabler Study Guide by Henrik Ibsen: Themes
		She is jealous of Thea's influence over Eilert, a man with whom Hedda had once been involved but, afraid of her own passions, had driven off (at gunpoint).
		Hedda's betrayal is the last manifestation of a hatred that extends all the way back to her school years, when she had bullied Thea.
		One admission that Hedda openly makes to Lovborg is her fear of scandal, which prompts him to charge that she is a "coward at heart," which she confirms.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-heddagabler/themes.html (173 words)

	Hedda Gabler- Roadhouse Theatre for Contemporary Art
		Hedda is violently jealous of Eilert’s relationship with Thea and considers the new abstinence a sign of weakness and of subservience to the other woman.
		Hedda Gabler, unlike Ibsen’s other plays, seems to have no direct social purpose, unless it is to celebrate the dilemma of the rebellious individual who must die to escape societal constraints.
		Hedda has been groomed to get her own way, by her father, “The General.” Unfortunately, she is not blessed with being a man, so she has no power of her own.
	www.goerie.com /roadhouse/shows/heddagabler.htm (1559 words)

	FABULOUS REVIEW: HEDDA GABLER by The Stage Club
		HEDDA GABLER is too often put down as a heavyweight piece of nineteenth-century gloom, but on closer inspection turns out to have unexpected dimensions.
		Nicola Perry turns in an imperious performance as Hedda, capturing both the character's restless anger at being trapped in genteel poverty, and the ennui that prevents her from doing anything about it.
		The forces ranged against Hedda are formidable, chief amongst them her Causaubon of a husband, George (the boyish Roy Marsh), set to destroy her through indifference rather than malice, and his Aunt Julia.
	inkpot.com /theatre/01reviews/01revheddgabl.html (603 words)

	Hedda - Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen, Trevor Nunn, Glenda Jackson, Peter Eyre, Patrick Stewart, Constance Chapman, ...
		Hedda (Glenda Jackson), the proud daughter of a general, has married George Tesman (Timothy West), a timid and boring scholar.
		Hedda's passion seeks release in the poetic ideal of a beautifully conceived and executed self-destruction.
		Hedda is a restless, free-spirited and ruthless woman who enjoys playing with other people's lives and ultimately destroying them.
	www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/1106 (581 words)

	HENRIK IBSEN
		In Hedda Gabler he gives us a typical tragedy of modern life, and in the strange, sensitive, selfish heroine, he presents one of the most wonderful and subtle conceptions of woman in the whole range of dramatic literature.
		This is a highly complex play: Hedda Gabler's behavior is contradictory; the characters are not easily judged because they have positive and negative traits; the issues raised are numerous and complicated; finally, the structure of the play does not reveal Ibsen's point of view.
		If you agree with Hardwick's interpretation of Hedda, you might decide that Hedda's lack of motivation is such a serious flaw that the play, which revolves around her, is a failure.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/cs6/ibsen.html (1758 words)

	World's Greatest Classic Books - Hedda Gabler
		Some audiences have viewed Gabler as driven to desperation simply because her world has turned out to be less charmed than she hoped.
		The lens through which Baitz views Gabler has been shaped by contemporary feminism and the theatrical tradition beginning with Beckett, yet he preserves what is most fascinating about this play centered on a character who is at once difficult, petty, desperate, and ambitious, but still elicits the sympathy of audiences.
		He was in his sixties when he wrote Hedda Gabler and it signaled another change in his life and writing.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/quickstep/1103/book55.htm (2352 words)

	Hedda Gabler Summary & Essays - Henrik Ibsen
		Hedda Gabler, published in 1890, was first performed in Munich, Germany, on January 31, 1891, and over the next several weeks was staged in a variety of European cities, including Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Christiania (Oslo).
		It is an ironic association, for in the months after the sixty-two-year old playwright stopped corresponding with Emilie, he wrote Hedda Gabler, which Herman Weigand termed the ''coldest, most impersonal of Ibsen's plays’’ in The Modern Ibsen: A Reconsideration.
		Hedda Gabler's reputation steadily rose in the twentieth century, engaging the interest of many important actresses who found in Hedda one of the most intriguing and challenging female roles in modern drama.
	www.enotes.com /hedda-gabler (385 words)

	Hedda Gabler, a CurtainUp review
		Hedda Gabler may think of herself as capable only of boring herself to death, but as played by Elizabeth Marvel, she's unlikely to bore anyone watching her smoky-voiced, sultry Hedda in the production currently at the New York Theatre Workshop.
		Those unfamiliar with the famously enigmatic, self-destructive anti-heroine are apt to scratch their heads over the occasional bipolar outbursts from Hedda as well as other visitors to the usually elegant parlor now transformed into a huge loftlike space.
		The beautiful Hedda is torn between a yearning for excitement and sexual fulfillment and the need to conform and adhere to a strict code of honor.
	www.curtainup.com /heddagablernytw.html (895 words)

	Hedda Gabler's Suicide -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		Hedda Tesman is her own person: it is the society of the time which confines her.
		She was raised as the only child of the famous General Gabler, and as a result has little feminine characteristics that would cause her to fit into society.
		Hedda does not always flout these masculine traits though, as she plays the role of the desirable housewife, the ‘already taken’ or ‘forbidden fruit’ with Judge Brack.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/230 (1525 words)

	'Hedda Gabler'
		Hedda Gabler is an intelligent, unpredictable, somewhat dishonest young woman from an aristocratic family who is not afraid to manipulate her husband and friends.
		It becomes clear early in the play that Jurgen is financially overstretched and must tell Hedda he won't be able to support her lavish lifestyle.
		Hedda Gabler was originally written in Ibsen's native Norwegian.
	www.reflector.com /news/content/features/stories/2006/11/17/hedda.html (860 words)

	BAM : Brooklyn Academy of Music
		Imperious and spoiled, Hedda Gabler stands out as one of Ibsen’s most compelling and conflicted characters—an aristocratic woman aching to be free of her middle-class husband yet terrified of scandal.
		As portrayed by Cate Blanchett (The Aviator, Elizabeth), an actress blessed with innate grace and an extraordinary dramatic range, Hedda moves through her days perpetually on edge, as volatile as she is vulnerable.
		Just home from a six-month honeymoon, Hedda struggles to come to terms with a marriage to a man she finds numbingly dull and the possible pregnancy that threatens to seize hold of her body and future.
	www.bam.org /events/06HEDD/06HEDD.aspx (340 words)

	HEDDA GABLER
		Like Laclos's Marquise de Merteuil, Hedda is a brilliant woman whose formidable cunning, denied a more fulfilling outlet by the norms of her time and social strata, finds expression in the destruction of other people's happiness (more specifically the engineering of her former lover's suicide).
		As Lovborg, Hedda's ex-flame, Bill Kemp had the perfect blend of self-consuming emotional intensity that makes the character the ideal victim for her machinations.
		As Tesman, Hedda's milquetoast scholar husband, Christopher Cappiello took a role too often played for shallow comic relief and, while certainly humorous in the character's obtuseness, also found the roots of tragedy in so myopic a figure.
	www.oobr.com /top/volTwo/fourteen/OOBR-HEDDA.html (559 words)

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