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Three plays by Frederic Hebbel

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The volume gathers three intense verse-dramas that probe personal obsession, social pressure, and the costs of moral conviction. One play stages a stark, violent confrontation between a determined woman and overwhelming military or patriarchal force, exploring duty and vengeance. Another presents a domestic tragedy set in a narrow bourgeois milieu, tracing a woman's fall, the father's rigid authority, and the grinding effects of shame and poverty. A third sketches royal passion and political jealousy, where love and honor collide with suspicion and ruin. Across the pieces the prose is austere and compressed, emphasizing psychological torment, moral ambiguity, and a severe realism that foregrounds character over spectacle.

FREDERIC CHRISTIAN HEBBEL, born in 1813 in Schleswig-Holstein, in humble circumstances. After travelling about Europe he settled in Vienna in 1846. He died there in 1863.

THREE PLAYS

FREDERIC HEBBEL

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