Hedda – suppose a man came home one morn
Eilert Loevborg
Hedda Gabler
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Monologue Context
Loevborg is, at this point, confessing to Hedda Gabler that he has lost the
Monologue Text
Hedda – suppose a man came home one morning, after a night of debauchery, and said to the mother of his child: ‘Look here. I’ve been wandering round all night. I’ve been to – such-and-such a place and such-a-such a place. And I had our child with me. I took him to – these places. And I’ve lost him. Just – lost him. God knows where he is or whose hands he’s fallen into’.
Ibsen, Henrik, trans. Michael Meyer Hedda Gabler. Methuen Student Edition, 2002, p.83.
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