This transcription is based on images digitized by the University of
Connecticut and posted by the Internet Archive at:
https://archive.org/details/lowerdepthsdrama00gork
In general, this transcription attempts to retain the formatting,
punctuation and spelling of the source text. The following changes
were noted:
-- p. 8: I'm sick myself--poisoned with alchohol . . .--Changed
"alchohol" to "alcohol".
-- The portrait of Gorky originally between pages 26 and 27 was moved
so that it appears after page 28, between Acts One and Two.
-- p. 50: SATINE [_screams_] The dead can't hear . . . the dead do not
feel--Scream!--Roar! . . . the deaf don't hear!--A hand-written note
in the source images changed the word "deaf" to "dead". To verify the
change, translations by David Magarshack, in _The Storm and Other
Russian Plays_ (New York: Hill and Wang, 1960), Edwin Hopkins (first
published in the Winter 1905 issue of _Poet Lore_ as "A Night's
Lodging"), and Laurence Irving (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912?) were
checked. As a result, the line "the deaf don't hear!" was changed to
"the dead don't hear!"
-- p. 72: You can't escape your fate. . . .
police--Abram--whistle!--Capitalized "police" for consistency.
-- p. 75: The law of life was the law of his heart. . . . and he who
obeys this law, is good--The period preceding the ellipsis was deleted
for consistency.