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Pillars of Society
Henrik Ibsen
Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp

E-text scanned by Martin Adamson
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Karsten Bernick, a shipbuilder.
Mrs. Bernick, his wife.
Olaf, their son, thirteen years old.
Martha Bernick, Karsten Bernick's sister.
Johan Tonnesen, Mrs. Bernick's younger brother.
Lona Hessel, Mrs. Bernick's elder half-sister.
Hilmar Tonnesen, Mrs. Bernick's cousin.
Dina Dorf, a young girl living with the Bernicks.
Rorlund, a schoolmaster.
Rummel, a merchant.
Vigeland and Sandstad, tradesman
Krap, Bernick's confidential clerk.
Aune, foreman of Bernick's shipbuilding yard.
Mrs. Rummel.
Hilda Rummel, her daughter.
Mrs.Holt.
Netta Holt, her daughter.
Mrs. Lynge.

Townsfolk and visitors, foreign sailors, steamboat passengers, etc.,
etc.

(The action takes place at the Bernicks' house in one of the smaller
coast towns in Norway)
ACT I.
(SCENE.ЧA spacious garden-room in the BERNICKS' house. In the foreground on the
left is a door leading to BERNICK'S business room; farther back in the same
wall, a similar door. In the middle of the opposite wall is a large
entrance-door, which leads to the street. The wall in the background is almost
wholly composed of plate-glass; a door in it opens upon a broad flight of steps
which lead down to the garden; a sun-awning is stretched over the steps.Below
the steps a part of the garden is visible,bordered by a fence with a small gate
in it. On the other side of the fence runs a street, the opposite side of which
is occupied by small wooden houses painted in bright colours. It is summer, and
the sun is shining warmly. People are seen, every now and then, passing along
the street and stopping to talk to one another; others going in and out of a
shop at the corner, etc.
In the room a gathering of ladies is seated round a table. MRS. BERNICK is
presiding; on her left side are MRS. HOLT and her daughter NETTA, and next to
them MRS. RUMMEL and HILDA RUMMEL. On MRS. BERNICK'S right are MRS. LYNGE,
MARTHA BERNICK and DINA DORF. All the ladies are busy working. On the table lie
great piles of linen garments and other articles of clothing, some half