Hedda Gabler

About Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright and poet whose realistic symbolic and often controversial plays revolutionised European theatre. He is widely regarded as the father of modern drama. His acclaimed plays include A Doll's House Ghosts Hedda Gabler An Enemy of the People and The Pillars of the Community. Sophie Duncan is a Fellow of Christ Church University of Oxford. She received her DPhil from Brasenose College Oxford where she was Senior Hulme Scholar in 2013. She then became Stipendiary Lecturer at St Catherines and Supernumerary Fellow in English at Harris Manchester College before returning to full-time research at Magdalen. She has been a guest lecturer at Kings College London and the Bread Loaf School of English. In 2013 she became Editor of Victorian Network. Her research includes longstanding links with the world of professional theatre and she works regularly as a historical advisor/dramaturg in theatre television radio and film. Her publications include Shakespeares Women and the Fin de Siècle (Oxford University Press) and she has published on the African American actor Ira Aldridge the bibliographical history of Oscar Wilde and Bram Stokers Dracula (1897). Michael Meyer is widely regarded as the definitive translator of Ibsen and Strindberg. His Strindberg translations made him the first Englishman to receive the Gold Medal of the Swedish Academy in 1964 and his biography of Ibsen won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1971.