HEDDA GABLER 

By Henrik Ibsen 

Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer 

Introduction by William Archer 

INTRODUCTION. 

From Munich, on June 29, 1890, Ibsen wrote to the Swedish poet, Count
Carl Soilsky: "Our intention has all along been to spend the summer
in the Tyrol again.  But circumstances are against our doing so.  I
am at present engaged upon a new dramatic work, which for several
reasons has made very slow progress, and I do not leave Munich until
I can take with me the completed first draft.  There is little or no
prospect of my being able to complete it in July." Ibsen did not
leave Munich at all that season.  On October 30 he wrote: "At present
I am utterly engrossed in a new play.  Not one leisure hour have I