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,