suggestion of the supernatural, we are confronted with the wholly
impossible, the inconceivable. How remote is this alike from his
principles of art and from the consistent, unvarying practice of his
better years! So great is the chasm between _John Gabriel Borkman_
and _When We Dead Awaken_ that one could almost suppose his mental
breakdown to have preceded instead of followed the writing of the
latter play. Certainly it is one of the premonitions of the coming
end. It is Ibsen's _Count Robert of Paris_. To pretend to rank it
with his masterpieces is to show a very imperfect sense of the nature
of their mastery.




WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN.

A DRAMATIC EPILOGUE.



CHARACTERS.


PROFESSOR ARNOLD RUBEK, a sculptor.
MRS. MAIA RUBEK, his wife.
THE INSPECTOR at the Baths.
ULFHEIM, a landed proprietor.
A STRANGER LADY.
A SISTER OF MERCY.