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Violence
Some
Two deaths including a suicide; handled in Ibsen's restrained stage tradition
Language
Barely any
Formal prose in the literary play tradition
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal sexual content; the marital dissatisfaction and manipulation are present but not explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Some period-appropriate drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological portrait of a woman trapped by social convention — brilliant, constrained, and choosing destruction as her only form of power — is one of theater's most demanding and rewarding character studies
What this book is about
Ibsen's masterwork follows Hedda, a general's daughter who has married the intellectual Tesman for social security rather than love, and who destroys those around her in a desperate assertion of power in a world that offers her none. The play is among the most powerful portraits of social constraint and self-destruction in Western drama. The violence (suicide and another death) occurs offstage in the Greek tradition. Essential theater.
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