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A note on the translation
Characters
ACT ONE
ACT TWO
ACT THREE
This production of Ghosts was first produced by Rose Theatre Kingston and English Touring Theatre on 19 September 2013 at the Rose Theatre Kingston.
William Archer
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Furthermore, Ibsen specified that his plays should be translated into the everyday language of the audience to whom they are played. My aim has been to give the actors space and not load them down with too many words.
But Ibsen was a great poet and very particular in his intentions. I’ve resisted the temptation to use English’s huge vocabulary to soften the pattern of repeated words that creates the text’s allusive character, and I’ve tried to ensure that the more poetic phrases arise from the character’s responses to the situation and don’t feel imposed. I’ve avoided English Victorianisms or additional explanatory phrases. I’ve also tried to retain a sense of nineteenth-century social mores and convey something of the play’s particular Scandinavian atmosphere.
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