Show Plot Hedda Gabler

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Time Period: late 1800s

Setting: The Tesmans' newly rented villa in the capital city of Norway

Summary: Hedda returns from her honeymoon with her dull academic husband, Jørgen Tesman.  She feels trapped by her new social role and her lack of money. Her former lover, Eilert Løvborg, arrives back in town.  Feeling jealous of Eilert, she burns his manuscript and hands him a pistol to end his life heroically, resulting in tragic consequences for herself.