GHOSTS 

 A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts 

 

 by 

 Henrik Ibsen 

 

 Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp 

 

 DRAMATIS PERSONAE 

   Mrs. Alving (a widow). Oswald Alving (her son, an artist). Manders (the Pastor of the parish). Engstrand (a carpenter). Regina Engstrand (his daughter, in Mrs Alving's service). 

 (The action takes place at Mrs Alving's house on one of the larger fjords of Western Norway.) 

 

 GHOSTS 

 

 

 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. 

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