Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gable

List of Illustrations xi Series Editor's Preface xii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1(4) Contexts Contextual Overview 5(11) Norwegian Nationalism 5(3) The Women's Movement 8(3) Naturalism 11(5) Chronology 16(7) Contemporary Documents 23(18) Introduction 23(1) Statehood and Individual Freedom 23(1) ``To My Friend the Revolutionary Orator'' (1869) 24(1) Ibsen Letter to Georg Brandes (December 20, 1870) 24(1) Ibsen Letter to Georg Brandes (February 17, 1871) 24(1) Ibsen Ibsen and Women's Rights 25(1) Diary Entry 25(1) Camilla Collett Speech at the Festival of the Norwegian Women's Rights League (May 26, 1888) 26(1) Ibsen The Principles of Naturalism 27(1) Naturalism in the Theatre (1881) 27(1) Emile Zola From August Strindberg, Preface to Miss Julie (1888) 28(1) On Objectivity (1882) 29(1) Ibsen On the Primacy of Character (n.d.) 29(1) Ibsen Letter to Edmund Gosse (January 15, 1874) 30(1) Ibsen Ibsen and the Naturalist Theater 30(1) Letter to August Lindberg (November 22, 1884) 31(1) Ibsen Letter to Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen (November 13, 1886) 31(1) Ibsen Letter to Sofie Reimers (March 25, 1887) 31(1) Ibsen Letter to Kristina Stern (January 14, 1891) 32(1) Ibsen Hedda Gabler 32(1) Letter to Count Moritz Prozor (December 4, 1890) 32(1) Ibsen Preliminary Outline for Hedda Gabler (c.1889) 33(1) Ibsen Working Note for Hedda Gabler (c.1888--9) 33(1) Ibsen Scenario for Acts 2 and 3 (c.1890) 34(1) Ibsen Preface to Hedda Gabler (1906--12) 35(6) William Archer Interpretations Critical History 41(8) Ibsen and His Public 42(1) Gosse and Archer: Setting the Critical Agenda 43(2) Interpreting Hedda Gabler 45(4) Hedda Gabler: Production History 49(4) Early Performance and Criticism 53(17) Ethical Approaches 53(1) Testimony to the Select Committee on Censorship (1892) 53(1) E. F. S. Piggott ``Ibsen's New Drama'' (1891) 53(3) Edmund Gosse ``The Lesson of Ibsen's Plays'' (1891) 56(1) George Bernard Shaw The First English Production 57(1) ``On Playing Hedda'' (1928) 57(4) Elizabeth Robins ``The Mausoleum of Ibsen'' (1893) 61(2) William Archer ``On the Occasion of Hedda Gabler'' (1891) 63(2) Henry James Hedda as ``Modern Woman'' 65(1) Preface to Hedda Gabler (1906--12) 65(1) William Archer ``Ibsen's Women'' (1907) 66(4) Alla Nazimova Modern Criticism and Performance 70(39) Updating Hedda for the 1920s 70(1) ``Acting Hedda Gabler'' (1970) 70(2) Blanche Yurka ``Ibsen's Hedda Gabler'' (1964) 72(2) Eva le Gallienne Ibsen as Craftsman 74(1) Introduction to Eleven Plays of Henrik Ibsen (1935) 74(2) H. L. Mencken Introduction to Collected Plays (1957) 76(1) Arthur Miller Hedda as ``Heroine'' 77(1) ``The Humanist'' (1966) 77(3) Muriel Bradbrook ``Imprisoned Souls'' (1962) 80(2) G. Wilson Knight Hedda Gabler and Theories of Tragedy 82(1) The Modern Theatre (1948) 82(1) Eric Bentley Dramatic Essays (1962) 83(1) Nigel Dennis The Death of Tragedy (1961) 84(1) George Steiner Principles of Tragedy (1968) 85(2) Geoffrey Brereton Hedda Gabler and Poetic Drama 87(1) Ibsen's Dramatic Method: A Study of the Prose Dramas (1953) 87(1) John Northam The Life of the Drama (1964) 87(1) Eric Bentley Postmodern Interpretations 88(1) ``The Airless World of Hedda Gabler'' (1992) 88(4) Frederick Lise Lone Marker Feminist Readings 92(1) ``Hedda -- Frigid Woman or Life Bearer?'' (1971) 92(3) Elenore Lester ``Glenda Jackson Meets Hedda Gabler'' (1975) 95(3) Irving Wardle Recent Approaches to Hedda Gabler 98(1) ``Hedda Gabler: The Play in Performance'' (1980) 98(2) Janet Suzman ``Interview with Janet Suzman'' (1982) 100(2) Richard J. Beckley ``Drama and the Mind: Hedda Gabler'' (1989) 102(7) James McFarlane Key Passages Introduction 109(3) Note on the Text 109(1) Synopsis 109(3) Key Passages 112(67) From Act 1: The Family Versus Hedda 112(15) From Act 1: Hedda Versus Thea 127(6) From Act 2: Hedda Versus Brack 133(6) From Act 2: Hedda Versus Lovborg 139(11) From Act 3: Hedda Versus Tesman 150(5) From Act 3: Burning the Book 155(4) From Act 4: Entrapment and Liberation 159(16) Further Reading Editions and Text 175(1) Background Reading 176(1) Critical Interpretations 176(3) Index 179