Pelléas and Mélisande

Maurice Maeterlinck

Translated by Richard Hovey

37 chapters · about 2 h

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The opening

SCENE I.

The gate of the castle.

MAIDSERVANTS (within). Open the gate! Open the gate!

PORTER (within). Who is there? Why do you come and wake me up? Go out by the little gates; there are enough of them!…

A MAIDSERVANT (within). We have come to wash the threshold, the gate, and the steps; open, then! open!

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About this edition

The words
Richard Hovey's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • The source library's header, footer and license, in 3 places
  • The printed play title repeated (the part's name shows it) (5 blocks)
  • Notes about a stage production, in 3 places
  • The dash joining a scene's number to its setting (the setting follows as its own paragraph)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers