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
Mel and Norma Gabler "Phil Donahue Show" (3 times), ABC's "Nightline", NBC's "Today", CNN's "The Freeman Report", PBS's "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour", CBS's "Morning News", PBS's former "Firing Line" with William F. Buckley, Jr., Jerry Falwell's "Old-Time Gospel Hour" and CNN's former "Crossfire" with Patrick J. Buchanan. After Mel Gabler's death, columnist Gary North wrote that if one wants "a model of what the 'little guy' can do, begin with the Gablers." Mel and Norma Gabler Melvin Nolan Freeman Gabler (January 5, 1915 – December 19, 2004) and his wife, Norma Elizabeth Rhodes Gabler (June 16, 1923 – July 22, 2007) were campaigners against public