Hedda Gabler

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Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
(1828-1906)
"The dramatic character, Hedda, is not determined merely by the social restrictions imposed upon the female at the end of the nineteenth century as that world is represented by the social dynamics of the play; the character is also configured by the social dynamics of Ibsen's basic sexual paradigm, a sexual paradigm that voices the male-dominated sexual ideology of Ibsen's moment in history mediated through the idiosyncrasies of his own psyche".
Charles Lyons

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