Dr. Thomas Stockmann, Medical Officer
of the Municipal Baths.
Mrs. Stockmann, his wife.
Petra (their daughter) a teacher.
Ejlif & Morten (their sons, aged 13 and
10 respectively).
Peter Stockmann (the Doctor’s elder
brother), Mayor of the
Town and Chief Constable, Chairman of
the Baths’ Committee, etc.
Morten Kiil, a tanner (Mrs. Stockmann’s
adoptive father).
Hovstad, editor of the “People’s
Messenger.”
Billing, sub-editor.
Captain Horster.
Aslaksen, a printer.
Men of various conditions and occupations,
a few women, and a troop of schoolboys the
audience at a public meeting.
The action takes place in a coastal
town in southern Norway,