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CHARACTERS.

DOCTOR THOMAS STOCKMANN, medical officer of the Baths.

MRS. STOCKMANN, his wife.

PETRA, their daughter, a teacher.

EILIF } their sons, thirteen and ten years old respectively. MORTEN }

PETER STOCKMANN, the doctor's elder brother, Burgomaster[1] and chief of police, chairman of the Baths Committee, etc.

MORTEN KIIL,[2] 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.

  1. "Burgomaster" is the most convenient substitute for "Byfogd," but "Town Clerk" would perhaps be more nearly equivalent. It is impossible to find exact counterparts in English for the different grades of the Norwegian bureaucracy.
  2. Pronounce: Keel.