CHARACTERS.
- Mrs. Helen Alving, widow of Captain Alving, late Chamberlain[[10]] to the King.
- Oswald Alving, her son, a painter.
- Pastor Manders.
- Jacob Engstrand, a carpenter.
- Regina Engstrand, Mrs. Alving’s maid.
The action takes place at Mrs. Alving’s country
house, beside one of the large fjords in
Western Norway.
GHOSTS:
A FAMILY-DRAMA IN THREE ACTS.
ACT FIRST.
A spacious garden-room, with one door to the left, and two doors to the right. In the middle of the room a round table, with chairs about it. On the table lie books, periodicals, and newspapers. In the foreground to the left a window, and by it a small sofa, with a work-table in front of it. In the background, the room is continued into a somewhat narrower conservatory, the walls of which are formed by large panes of glass. In the right-hand wall of the conservatory is a door leading down into the garden. Through the glass wall a gloomy fjord-landscape is faintly visible, veiled by steady rain.
Engstrand, the carpenter, stands by the garden door. His left leg is somewhat bent; he has a clump of wood under the sole of his boot. Regina, with an empty garden syringe in her hand, hinders him from advancing.