Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
“Vildanden” is perhaps the 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 mi...
“Vildanden” is perhaps the 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 t...
2. ACT I.[WERLE’S _House. Richly and comfortably furnished study. Book cases and upholstered furniture, a writing-table, with papers and ledgers in the center of the stage; lamps alight...
3. ACT II.[HJALMAR EKDAL’S _studio. The room is fairly large: it is evidently at the top of the house. To the right a slanting roof with large panes of glass, half covered by a blue curta...
4. ACT III.[HJALMAR _is sitting at the table busy retouching a photograph; several other portraits are lying in front of him. After a little while_ GINA _comes in from the entrance-door in...
5. ACT IV.[HJALMAR EKDAL’S _studio. A photograph has just been taken; a camera, with a cloth over it, a pedestal, a few chairs, a console, and so forth are placed down the stage. It is af...
6. ACT V.[HJALMAR EKDAL’S _studio. Cold gray morning light. Wet snow on the great panes of the sky-light._ GINA, _in an apron and bib, with a broom and duster in her hand comes from the...