Catiline (play) later works. Catilina, full of doubts and torn between love and duty, is similar to protagonists in "John Gabriel Borkman" and "The Master Builder". Furia is also the prototype of some of the later female characters, such as Hedda Gabler. Ibsen was not the first playwright to dramatize the story of Catiline. Ben Jonson wrote a tragedy on the subject, called "Catiline, His Conspiracy", in 1611. Asked later what he had read when he wrote Catiline, Ibsen replied that he had read only the Danish Norse saga-inspired Romantic tragedian Adam Oehlenschläger and Ludvig Holberg, "the Scandinavian Molière". [BBC Radio 4's
Hedda Nussbaum scholars and activists. Some saw Nussbaum as an archetypal victim of domestic violence whose actions were controlled and restricted not only by her abusive partner, but also by the culture at large that denies the seriousness of abuse in the home. Other leading feminists—notably Susan Brownmiller—suggested that while Nussbaum suffered violence from her partner, she also have shared full culpability for Lisa's death. Books by Nussbaum include: Hedda Nussbaum Hedda Nussbaum (born August 8, 1942) is an American woman who was caretaker for a six-year-old girl who died of physical abuse in 1987. The death of the girl, Lisa Steinberg,