Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
1890
Henrik Ibsen's chilly drama of a bored officer's wife who burns a manuscript and shoots herself with her father's pistol scandalized Europe. Audiences walked out; critics were baffled. Within a decade it would be recognized as the starting point of modern psychological theater, and Hedda one of the great female roles in the repertoire.
In context
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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