Gain Hedda Gabler And Other Plays Originated By Henrik Ibsen Rendered As Print

Pillars of the Community/
The Wild Duck/
Hedda Gabler,/not quite as strong as the other ibsen volume i have but still good, the pillars of the community is the weakest of the three but the wild duck and hedda gabler are both bleak tragedies.
interesting stuff in the translators notes on howth century norwegian is more distant from modern norwegian thanth century english is from modern english I'm going to see the national theatre stream of Hedda Gabler in March, and I've been aware of the play for a while.
I really enjoyed all three plays in this edition, Ibsen definitely has a style, all three plays hinge on the truth about a particular individual but their endings are very different.
Often unsatisfying actually, but always poignant, In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth.
The Pillars of the Communitydepicts a corrupt shipowners struggle to hide the sins of his past at the expense of another mans reputation, while in The Wild Duckan idealist, believing he must tell the truth at any cost, destroys a family by exposing the lie behind his friends marriage.
And Hedda Gablerportrays an unhappily married woman who is unable to break free from the conventional life she has created for herself, with tragic results for the entire family.
Hedda Gabler and The Wild Duck were too similar in theme and resolution to be put together so closely, I've never read Ibsen before and I can see why these plays were popular or shocking at the time, It can be frustrating or confusing at times how the most important plot points are never spoken, but are spoken around and are insinuated with pauses and interruptions.
If that were every once in awhile it would've been ok, but it seemed like ALL of the important plot points were never spoken and after a few hundred pages of that, I really longed for people to finish their sentences and just say what they meant.
I enojyed Hedda Gabler very much, Ibsen's play was definitely ahead of its time, and I enjoyed learning more about Hedda's thinking and understanding her longing for freedom and beauty.
for hedda gabler: i can see why this would've been considered groundbreaking in the past considering its insight into the female psyche, but at points it was kind of going in circles A weird story about a strange and hateful woman.
I like these. Nuanced, intricate, and full of human fallibility, Hedda Gabler is a personal favorite, Good stuff. Pillars of the community: good start, but very gentle denouement
The Wild Duck: very confused
Hedda Gabler: strong whole, up to the end about power and powerlessness, boredom, nihilism, hopelessness Introduction

The Pillars of the Community
The Wild Duck
Hedda Gabler

Notes A fine collection of Ibsen works the two stand our pieces for me personally were "Hedda Gabler" and "Rosmersholm" Αφορμή για ν' αγοράσω αυτό το βιβλίο ήταν η καταξιωμένη ηθοποιός Πέγκυ Καρρά όπου στο επεισόδιο με τον Πύρρο τον βορειοηπειρώτη κλέφτη σαλαμιού ετοιμαζόταν για να πάρει τον

ρόλο της sitelinkΈντα Γκάμπλερ.

Η Πέγκυ στάθηκε αφορμή και για άλλα θεατρικά που διάβασα: Τρεις Αδερφές στη Μόσχα αδερφές μου, στη Μόσχα, Αντιγόνη Ω τάφε μου, κρεβάτι νυφικό μου και φυσικά τις Βάκχες του Ευριπίδη βρίσκομαι ήδη στον Κιθαιρώνα
Της χρωστώ πολλά που μ' έβαλε στο θέατρο έστω και σαν αναγνώστη

Αγόρασα αυτό το βιβλίο τοδιάβασα την Έντα Γκάμπλερ αλλά μετά το παράτησα, Και τώρα είναι που θα μιλήσω για τον Ίψεν.

Θυμάμαι πριν χρόνια ανέβαζε ο ΘΟΚ τους Βρικόλακες του Ίψεν και η μάνα μου, εγώ, μια φίλη της και διάφοροι άλλοι πήγαμε να δούμε τους Βρικόλακες περιμένοντας να δούμε βαμπίρ που ρουφάνε αίμα. Αντιθέτως οι Βρικόλακες ήταν εσωτερικοί. Στα Αγγλικά το διάβασα πολύ αργότερα όταν ήδη είχα διαβάσει και την Έντα και το Κουκλόσπιτο απ' τ' αγαπημένα μου θεατρικά Στα Αγγλικά και στα Νορβηγικά οι Βρικόλακες είναι φαντάσματα Ghosts, Gengangere, τώρα γιατί στα Ελληνικά έγιναν Βρικόλακες ποιος ξέρει.

Αν δεν έχεις φύγει ήδη από το εγωκεντρικό μου παραλήρημα, τώρα είναι που θα μιλήσω επιτέλους για το πώς μου φάνηκε το βιβλίο.

Περιείχεθεατρικά όλα γραμμένα στα τέλη τουου αιώνα

Το πρώτο ονομάζεται Τα στηρίγματα της κοινωνίας Samfundets Støtterκαι ασχολείται με την διαφθορά στους πλούσιους και ισχυρούς της κοινωνίας και το πώς φθάνουν εκεί που είναι με όχι και τόσο καθαρές δουλειές, Ο Κάρστεν Μπέρνικ είναι ένας διεφθαρμένος πλοιοκτήτης του οποίου η εικόνα του καλού οικογενειάρχη θα σπάσει όταν έρχονται από την Αμερική η κουνιάδα κι ο κουνιάδος του απειλώντας τον ότι θα φανερώσουν τις πομπές του και θα τον καταστρέψουν. Μ' άρεσε που στο τέλος με κάποιον τρόπο ήρθε η κάθαρση αλλά έγινε κάπως βιαστικά.

Το δεύτερο ονομάζεται Η αγριόπαπια Vildandenόπου ο ιδεαλιστής γιος ενός βιομηχάνου προσπαθώντας να αποκαλύψει το ψέμα πίσω από τον γάμο του φίλου του του καταστρέφει τη ζωή με πολύ βαριές συνέπειες. Εδώ ο Ίψεν θέλει να δείξει ότι η αλήθεια δεν φέρνει πάντα καλά αποτελέσματα αν δεν ειπωθεί με τρόπο και ξέροντας ότι το πρόσωπο θα τη δεχτεί με ωριμότητα. Δυστυχώς δεν την πήρε με καθόλου καλό τρόπο την αλήθεια ο φίλος του ιδεαλιστή και έπραξε ένα σοβαρότατο λάθος που έφερε την καταστροφή με την ανωριμότητα του και τον εγωκεντρισμό του. Θύμωσα και παρόλο που μ' άρεσε σαν ιστορία μου φάνηκαν υπερβολικές οι αντιδράσεις του στο άκουσμα της αλήθειας, υπερβολικές στο σημείο του ψεύτικου.

Το τρίτο ονομάζεταιΈντα Γκάμπλερ Hedda Gablerκι εδώ βλέπουμε μια απογοητευμένη γυναίκα παγιδευμένη σ' ένα γάμο και μια ζωή που δε θέλει, κι έτσι για να βγει από την βαρεμάρα παίζει με τη μοίρα κάποιων ανθρώπων που πάλι θα φέρει τραγικά αποτελέσματα, Δυστυχώς η Έντα σαν χαραχτήρας δεν μ' άρεσε σχεδόν καθόλου διότι εκμεταλλεύτηκε καταστάσεις και ανθρώπους στο τέλος δεν την λυπήθηκα, ανακουφίστηκα με ό,τι έπαθε.

Υποκειμενική κριτική Μα έτσι είναι το θέατρο, σου βγάζει συναίσθημα που δεν είναι πάντα αντικειμενικό.
/I only read Hedda Gabler from this book, one of Ibsen's great plays, very good psychological character portrayal, . . and very ahead of its time, Hedda is so slay. Cant be bothered reading the other stories but theyre probably interesting I really enjoyed this play which isn't a surprise because I love most of Ibsen's work.
He is so good at stripping away the veneer and letting you know that he is warming you up to a tragedy.
You are left to wonder who it involves until later in the play but you can see the train wreck coming.
Great new translation of Hedda Gabler amp Lady from the Sea, Bril play. Bril i say. I was lowkey shippin lona and karston WAY more than i was shippin karston and his wifu, Hilmar was my fav just because everytime his nephew speaks to him he goes “Ugh!” He is so disgusted its too funny The Wild Duck:STARS I have hated Ibsen for the lastyears of my life.
I was a grad student in an acting program and had to read "Ghosts, " I found it melodramatic, heavy handed and just plain ludicrous, It reminded me of a creaky old mansion lousy with mould and damp, Even acting in the "Lady from the Sea"which I likedcould not make me change my negative opinion of this master of sturm und drung.
But being a student of the theatre in general and great playwrights in particular I knew I would one day have to read some more Ibsen.


Whenever I am engaged in the act of playwriting like I am now I like to immerse myself in dramatic literature.
To read the work of others allays my fears that playwriting is simply impossible, For the last few months I've been reading Pinter, Stephen Adly Giurgis, Nicky Silver, Chekov and a bunch of others, One day last week I picked up my much neglected "Ibsen: Four Major Plays" and set to work,

I skipped over "A Doll's House," which I had read in college and dived right into "Hedda Gabler, " What a feast of delights this play proved to be! It contains one of the most complex portraits of a lady outside of Shakespeare.
In fact, Hedda reminds me of Shakespeare's Cleopatra in that it feels like it would take four actresses acting all at the same time to deliver a performance as nuanced and multifaceted as Ibsen's writing.


Hedda is a willfully perverse, angry, manipulative and miserable woman choked by the banalaties she finds all around her.
She suffers the tragic consequences of getting exactly what she wanted out of life, Hedda has a healthy regard for social standing and conventions but needs to strike out against these valued ideals just the same.
She is a big fat spider trapping and playing games with the poor flies who buzz into her path, Unfortunately for her right before the final curtain she finds herself trapped in the same webs she has so silkily spun.
All this unfolds with such inevitability that one never senses Ibsen's vice like grip of plot and character until the very end.


The Rolf Fjelde translation left me a bit tepid, I thought it could have had been spicier at points, It comes off a bit starchy and more suited to the study than the stage, However this is a relatively tiny complaint, Fjelde's work never got in the way of my enjoying this glittering gem of a play, Highly recommended.


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