CHARACTERS.
- Doctor Thomas Stockmann, medical officer of the Baths.
- Mrs. Stockmann, his wife.
- Petra, their daughter, a teacher.
- Eilif
Petra }their sons, thirteen and ten years old respectively - Peter Stockmann, the doctor’s elder brother, Burgomaster[[5]] and chief of police, chairman of the Baths Committee, etc.
- Morten Kiil,[[6]] master tanner, Mrs. Stockmann’s adoptive-father.
- Hovstad, editor of the “People’s Messenger.”
- Billing, on the staff of the paper.
- Horster, a ship’s captain.
- Aslaksen, a printer.
Participants in a meeting of citizens: all sorts and conditions of men, some women, and a band of schoolboys.
The action passes in a town on the South Coast of Norway.