cultural resources in henrik ibsen's early environment - Ibsen.net

One is not bored when one is asleep.
CLARA.
You and your sleeping! I do not want to sleep.
MAJA.
Shall I tease your dark locks, then,
And adorn you handsomely with gold and silk,
Until the duke comes home from town tonight?
CLARA.
Terrible. That won't do. Something else.
MAJA.
What else shall I do? Let me see, I can
Tell you a delightful story
An old Moor taught me, when we
Were still in your father's house in Seville.
CLARA.
Seville! That's it! Yes, Seville!
Oh, how sweetly and easily it rests on the lips,
When home is mentioned in a foreign prison!
Talk to me about Seville, good Maja!
It is so good to hear the names
Of all my friends, and about
The grove of trees on my father's estate!
You are the only one who knows about them.
Talk about Seville, do you hear? About home!
MAJA.
About your home? Is your home not here
In this beautiful castle, the house of your husband,
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