The wild duck : $b A drama in five acts

Ibsen, Henrik · 1906

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. “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…

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