PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 100.



April 25th, 1891.




MR. PUNCH'S POCKET IBSEN.

(_Condensed and Revised Version by Mr P.'s Own Harmless Ibsenite._)

No. III.--HEDDA GABLER.

ACT I.

SCENE--_A Sitting-room cheerfully decorated in dark colours. Broad
doorway, hung with black crape, in the wall at back, leading to a back
Drawing-room, in which, above a sofa in black horsehair, hangs a
posthumous portrait of the late_ General GABLER. _On the piano is a
handsome pall. Through the glass panes of the back Drawing-room window
are seen a dead wall and a cemetery. Settees, sofas, chairs, &c.,
handsomely upholstered in black bombazine, and studded with small round
nails. Bouquets of immortelles and dead grasses are lying everywhere
about._

_Enter_ Aunt JULIE (_a good-natured looking lady in a smart hat_).