Ibsen Revisited--subtitled 鈥淎 Piece of Foolishness鈥�--is Floyd Dell鈥檚 clever speculation on an alternate ending to Henrik Ibsen鈥檚 play Hedda Gabler. A stranger arrives at an average, middle-class house, eager to meet the infamous Hedda Gabler, who did not commit suicide but instead married Lovberg. As a representative of the International Ibsen Society, the stranger is excited to meet the woman everyone supposed was dead. He believes he will find the same passionate woman that Ibsen wrote about, but the maid who greets him sets him straight: Mrs. Lovberg has become an instructor in Modern Adolescence and a writing assistant to her husband. Originally performed in 1914, 鈥淚bsen Revisited鈥� is an homage to the controversial play, full of allusions and inside jokes that will delight any fan of Hedda Gabler.
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