Hedda Gabler

American  

[hed-uh gab-ler] / ˈhɛd ə ˈgæb lər /

noun

1. a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.

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Example Sentences

Your castmate, Nina Hoss, said the role of Hedda Gabler is for women actors what Hamlet is for men.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

“Some teachers weren’t able to communicate what it meant for me to play a character — to play Hedda Gabler as a Black woman,” she recalled.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

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

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 pathos of this and the irony of it are of a part with the pathos of the close of "Hedda Gabler."

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius