F. Anstey
Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen - A Collection of Some of the Master's Best Known Dramas
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066237721
Table of Contents
"Taking off his gloves meaningly."
"Oh, my goodness, Rebecca—you mustn't , you know!"
"A poor fellow with both feet in the grave is not the best authority on the fit of silk stockings."
"Oh, you prillil squillikins!"
"I am a Norwegian literary man, and peculiar."
"What! the accounts of all those everlasting bores settled?"
"Father, a word with you in private: I loathe you."
"Put that nasty pigstol down!"
"For goodness' sake, let go my legs!"
"Beautiful rainbow-coloured powders that will give one a real grip on the world!"
WOMAN—THROUGH A MAN'S EYEGLASS
THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES
Mr. WILLIAM HEINEMANN'S
ROSMERSHÖLM
ACT FIRST
Sitting-room at Rosmershölm, with a stove, flower-stand, windows, ancient and modern ancestors, doors, and everything handsome about it. Rebecca West is sitting knitting a large antimacassar which is nearly finished. Now and then she looks out of a window, and smiles and nods expectantly to someone outside. Madam Helseth is laying the table for supper.
Rebecca.
[Folding up her work slowly.] But tell me precisely, what about this white horse?
[Smiling quietly.
Madam Helseth.
Lord forgive you, Miss!—[fetching cruet-stand, and placing it on table]—but you're making fun of me!
Rebecca.
[Gravely.] No, indeed. Nobody