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Hedda Gabler

American  
[hed-uh gab-ler] / ˈhɛd ə ˈgæb lər /

noun

  1. a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.


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So German actress Nina Hoss has actually played the title role of Hedda Gabler onstage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

She starred as Clytemnestra in a BBC miniseries adaptation of Sophocles' "Oresteia" in 1979, and she starred in an adaptation of "Hedda Gabler" for English television in 1981.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2020

The other said that seeing Nazimova as Hedda Gabler gave him his “first conception of a modern theater.”

From New York Times • May 28, 2020

Now 60, she made her name at the RSC and the National Theatre, where she shone in some of the great tragic roles, including Medea, Electra, Richard II, Mother Courage and Hedda Gabler.

From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2019

The d�nouement of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler requires that the two chief characters, Eilert L�vborg and Hedda Tesman, should die of pistol wounds.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

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