Hedda Gabler

by Henrik Ibsen


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Characters


GEORGE TESMAN.*
  HEDDA TESMAN, his wife.
  MISS JULIANA TESMAN, his aunt.
  MRS. ELVSTED.
  JUDGE** BRACK.
  EILERT LOVBORG.
  BERTA, servant at the Tesmans.

  *Tesman, whose Christian name in the original is "Jorgen," is
  described as "stipendiat i kulturhistorie"β€”that is to say, the
  holder of a scholarship for purposes of research into the History
  of Civilisation.

  **In the original "Assessor."
  The scene of the action is Tesman's villa, in the west end
  of Christiania.

 

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