The Lady from the Sea and Other Plays Author:Henrik Ibsen Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WILD DUCK A DEAMA IN FIVE ACTS HENKIK IBSEN TRANSLATED FROM THE NORWEGIAN BT ELEANOR MARX AVELIN6. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. "Vildanden" iu perhaps t... more »he most difficult of all Ibsen's prose dramas to translate. Some of the speeches of Gina and Relling are indeed quite untranslatable. The difficulty in the case of Gina is in respect to her frequent malapropisms, which, for the most part, turn on the mispronunciation of a word, or the use of a word which resembles in sound the one she wants. It is obvious that in .the transference of such blunders of one language to another their exact significance can not be caught. Occasionally it has been possible, as when she says "divide" for -'Divert," or calls the pistol "pigstol." But these instances are rare, and mrfre frequently Gina's slips could only have been indicated by entirely changing her words. As I have aimed at making as-literal a translation as possible I did not feel justified in so departing from the original. ELEANOR MARX AVELING. PERSONS OF THE PLAY. Weble, Merchant, Factory Owner, Etc. Gregers Werle, His Son. Old Ekdal. Hjalmar Ekdal, The Old Man's Son, a Photographer. Gina Ekdal, Hjalmar's Wife. Hedvig, Their Daughter, Fourteen Years Old. Mrs. Sorry, Werle's Housekeeper. Relling, a Doctor. Molvik, an ex-Theological Student. Grarerg, Rook-keeper. Pettersen, Servant to Werle. Jensen, Hired Waiter. A Pale Amd Pat Gentleman. A Thin-haired Gentleman. t A Short-sighted Gentleman. Six Other Gentlemen, Guests, of Werle's. Several Hired Waiters. The first Act at Mr. Werle's. The four other Acts at Ekdal, the photographer's. ACT I. [ Werle's House. Richly and comfortably furnished study. Book cases and upholstered furniture, a writing-table, with papers an...« less