Morbid, unhealthy, unwholesome, disgusting story.... A piece to bring the stage into disrepute and dishonor with every right-thinking man and woman.—Lloyds.
Merely dull dirt long drawn out.—Hawk.
If any repetition of this outrage be attempted, the authorities will doubtless wake from their lethargy.—Sporting and Dramatic News.
Most loathsome of all Ibsen’s plays.... Garbage and offal.—Truth.
Ibsen’s putrid play called “Ghosts.” ... So loathsome.—Academy.
As foul and filthy a concoction as has ever been allowed to disgrace the boards in an English theatre.... Dull and disgusting.... Nastiness and malodorousness laid on thickly as with a trowel.—Era.
Noisome corruption.—Stage.
For Hire
By Morris Rosenfeld
(See page [56]. Translation by Rose Pastor Stokes)