물오리

THE WILD DUCK

_A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS_

By HENRIK IBSEN

_TRANSLATED FROM THE NORWEGIAN BY_ ELEANOR MARX AVELING

Copyright, 1890, by JOHN W. LOVELL CO.

BOSTON WALTER H. BAKER & CO.

CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE. 3 PERSONS OF THE PLAY. 4 ACT I. 5 ACT II. 30 ACT III. 58 ACT IV. 89 ACT V. 117 Transcriber’s Note.

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE.

“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 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 more 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.

WERLE, _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. SORBY, _Werle’s Housekeeper_. RELLING, _a Doctor_. MOLVIK, _an ex-Theological Student_. GRABERG, _Book-keeper_. PETTERSEN, _Servant to Werle_. JENSEN, _Hired Waiter_. A PALE AND FAT GENTLEMAN. A THIN-HAIRED GENTLEMAN. A SHORT-SIGHTED GENTLEMAN. SIX OTHER GENTLEMEN, _Guests of Werle’s_. SEVERAL HIRED WAITERS.