Question

This play’s translator Eleanor Marx Aveling lamented that one of its character’s malapropisms could only be preserved with the words “divide” and “pigstol.” After extolling a photobook featuring death holding an hourglass, a girl in this play admits that she considers a room filled with rabbits to be “the depths of the (15[1])sea.” A man who diagnoses himself with “virtue-fever” ends this play by declaring his fate to be “the thirteenth at the (*) table.” This play’s protagonist, a photographer, stops work on an unspecified invention after he learns that his (10[1])friend’s father has the same oncoming blindness as his daughter. In this play, the idealist Gregers Werle reveals the “life-lies” of Gina and Hjalmar (“h’YAL-mar”) Ekdal. For 10 points, name this Henrik Ibsen play in which Hedvig shoots herself (10[1]-5[1])instead (-5[1])of the title bird. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: The Wild Duck [or Vildanden] (Aveling was Karl Marx’s daughter.)
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