Peer Gynt to this book." Despite this defense of his poetic achievement in "Peer Gynt", the play was his last to employ verse; from "The League of Youth" (1869) onwards, Ibsen was to write drama only in prose. Ibsen wrote "Peer Gynt" in deliberate disregard of the limitations that the conventional stagecraft of the 19th century imposed on drama. Its forty scenes move uninhibitedly in time and space and between consciousness and the unconscious, blending folkloric fantasy and unsentimental realism. Raymond Williams compares "Peer Gynt" with August Strindberg's early drama "Lucky Peter's Journey" (1882) and argues that both explore a new kind
Hedda Gabler produced by Shanghai's Hangzhou XiaoBaiHua Yue Opera House. An adaptation with a lesbian relationship was staged in Philadelphia in 2009 by Mauckingbird Theatre Company. A production at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts featured a male actor, Sean Peter Drohan, in the title role. Philip Kan Gotanda 'loosely' adapted Hedda Gabler into his 2002 play, "The Wind Cries Mary". A prostitute in the feature film "" is named Hedda Gobbler. The 2009 album "Until the Earth Begins to Part" by Scottish folk indie-rock band Broken Records features a song, "If Eilert Løvborg Wrote A Song, It Would Sound Like