Hedda Gabler

[ hed-uh-gab-ler ]

noun
  1. a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.

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How to use Hedda Gabler in a sentence

  • His stage credits include Richard II, Hamlet, King Lear, Hedda Gabler, Crime and Punishment, The Seagull, and Terre Haute.

    Earthy Beauty | Peter Eyre | March 19, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Hedda Gabler is perhaps that in which a sound proportion between the past and the present is most successfully preserved.

    Play-Making | William Archer
  • Truss your birds in seemly fashion, when, as if in birdlike emulation of Hedda Gabler, they cry for vine leaves on their breast.

    The Feasts of Autolycus | Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • Of Hedda Gabler he says: 'It was not really my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems.

  • The trouble with Hedda Gabler as a play is that it contains not a single personage that the audience can love.

    The Theory of the Theatre | Clayton Hamilton
  • She is far more interesting because far more complex than Hedda Gabler, while not so modish or so fascinating.

    Iconoclasts | James Huneker