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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act One
Time & Place
Middle-class parlor, early 20th century
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
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Context
The Maid works for Hedda Gabler, a woman who was
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THE MAID. Oh, how dull it is here! Nobody to talk to, nobody to flirt with. . . . Flirt! The men that come to this house don't even know the meaning of the word. I never worked in such a place. Life is just one long funeral. I wish something would happen. (A knock at the door.) Ah! if it were only in the old days, one might hope that that was a reporter. But nothing like that now!
Floyd Dell, “Ibsen Revisited,” King Arthur’s Socks and Other Village Plays. New York, Knopf, 1922.
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