History of theatre famous of which are "A Doll's House" (1879), "Ghosts" (1881), "The Wild Duck" (1884), and "Hedda Gabler" (1890). In addition, his works "Rosmersholm" (1886) and "When We Dead Awaken" (1899) evoke a sense of mysterious forces at work in human destiny, which was to be a major theme of symbolism and the so-called "Theatre of the Absurd". After Ibsen, British theatre experienced revitalization with the work of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Galsworthy, William Butler Yeats, and Harley Granville Barker. Unlike most of the gloomy and intensely serious work of their contemporaries, Shaw and Wilde wrote primarily in the
Hedda Hjortsberg Hedda Hjortsberg Hedvig "Hedda" Katarina Hjortsberg also known as "Hedda Koersner" (15 June 1777 – 3 October 1867) was a Swedish ballerina who starred for the Royal Swedish Ballet. She was the sister of the Swedish actor Lars Hjortsberg. Hedda Hjortsberg was one of six children to the stone mason Laurentius "Lars" Hjortsberg and the opera singer Maria Lovisa Schützer. Of their six children, four where employed at the Royal Swedish Opera or the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and two became famous: Lars Hjortsberg as an actor, and Hedda Hjortsberg as a ballerina. Hedda Hjortsberg was enrolled as a pupil of