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GHOSTS A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts
GHOSTS A Domestic
Tragedy in Three Acts
by Henrik Ibsen
Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp
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GHOSTS A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts
ACT I
(SCENE.--A large room looking upon a garden door in the left-hand
wall, and two in the right. In the middle of the room, a round table with
chairs set about it, and books, magazines and newspapers upon it. In the
foreground on the left, a window, by which is a small sofa with a work-
table in front of it. At the back the room opens into a conservatory rather
smaller than the room. From the right-hand side of this, a door leads to the
garden. Through the large panes of glass that form the outer wall of the
conservatory, a gloomy fjord landscape can be discerned, half-obscured by
steady rain.
ENGSTRAND is standing close to the garden door. His left leg is
slightly deformed, and he wears a boot with a clump of wood under the
sole. REGINA, with an empty garden-syringe in her hand, is trying to
prevent ing in.)
Regina (below her breath). What is it you want? Stay where you are.
The rain is dripping off you,
Engstrand. God's good rain, my girl.
Regina. The Devil's own rain, that's what it is!
Engstrand. Lord, how you talk, Regina. (Takes a few limping steps
forward.) What I wanted to tell you was this--
Regina. Don't clump about like that, stupid! The young master is lying
asleep upstairs.
Engstrand. Asleep still? In the middle of the day?
Regina. Well, it's no business of yours.
Engstrand. I was out on a spree last night--
Regina. I don't doubt it.
Engstrand. Yes, we are poor weak mortals, my girl--
Regina. We are indeed.
Engstrand. --and the temptations of the world are manifold, you know-
-but, for all that, here I was at my work at half-past five this morning.
Regina. Yes, yes, but make yourself scarce now. I am not going to
stand here as if I had a rendezvous with you.
Engstrand. As if you had a what?
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GHOSTS A Domestic Tragedy