Transcriber’s Note
There are quite a few instances of missing punctuation. The conventional period following the character’s name is sometimes missing and has been added for consistency’s sake without further comment. Those missing from setting and stage direction are also added without comment, since there is no obvious purpose to be served by the omission. However, the restoration of punctuation missing from dialogue is noted below, since the punctuation is frequently expressive. Several instances of dubious ‘?’ marks have been corrected, based on context.
As noted below, on p. [62], there is apparently a missing word in the phrase ‘And even it were so...’, most likely ‘if’.
Volume I of this series included errata for each succeeding volume, and noted the following for Volume VIII. Each of these was corrected in printing.
Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.
| [xii.11] | was four [old years/years old] before | Transposed. |
| [xxii.22] | [‘]But you really ought to do so. | Restored. |
| [xxiii.3] | the name of his only sister[,] | Restored. |
| [21.29] | one ought at least to vote[.] | Added. |
| [41.10] | Dr. Stockman[n]. | Added. |
| [62.19] | And even[ ]it were so? | sic: if? |
| [64.20] | or a whole pamph[l]et about it. | Inserted. |
| [69.29] | Father! Dismissal[!] | Added. |
| [76.2] | “People’s Messenger[.]” | Added. |
| [76.3] | an entrance-door[—]to the right | Restored. |
| [79.13] | Asla[sk/ks]en! just come here a moment. | Transposed. |
| [81.28] | but that’s too outrageous[!] | Probable. |
| [106.18] | just as I thought[.] | Added. |
| [106.24] | You know very well what I want[.] | Added. |
| [108.9] | Dr. Hovst[e/a]d. | Replaced. |
| [109.33] | sunshine and spring air, Thomas[.] | Added. |
| [113.25] | won’t be so easy a[t/s] you think | Replaced. |
| [114.24] | It[’]s because in this town | Inserted. |
| [124.14] | We protest[!] | Added. |
| [144.20] | Dr. Stockman[n] has unmasked | Added. |
| [144.24] | we ought to formul[u/a]te this opinion | Replaced. |
| [149.7] | Good[.] Come Katrina, come boys! | Added. |
| [169.23] | Dr. Stockman[n]. | Added. |
| [169.25] | Mort[o/e]n Kiil. | Replaced. |
| [174.25] | Yo[ /u]r attitude, you say? | Restored. |
| [211.21] | something good, mind[.] | Added. |
| [217.7] | But that unhappy Ekdal family[.] | Added. |
| [217.30] | I am not telling you the truth[?] | Added. |
| [218.9] | Ekdal taught p[r/h]otography? | Replaced. |
| [224.25] | opposed to it[!/?] | Replaced. |
| [241.27] | they are t[w/o]o big for curls. | Replaced. |
| [259.10] | you keep poultry, Lieutenant Ekdal[.] | Added. |
| [259.24] | like to roost high, you see[.] | Added. |
| [270.2] | You’re very strange[.] | Added. |
| [276.8] | a matter of life and death[.] | Added. |
| [296.10] | to make this great invention[.] | Added. |
| [303.3] | you’re not to say anything, father[.] | Added. |
| [303.29] | I brought him home last night[./?] | Replaced. |
| [307.22] | don’t sit there cricketizing me[.] | Added. |
| [309.29] | I carry it in my breast[.] | Added. |
| [321.14] | to have gone so far, Ekdal[;] you’re not | Added. |
| [361.15] | I'll try it to-morrow morning[!] | Added. |
| [378.16] | you haven’t caught cold, Ekdal[.] | Added. |
| [397.2] | Oh my child, my child[!] | Added. |