Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

An Enemy of the People

Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

Characters

DR. THOMAS STOCKMANN
Medical officer of the Baths

MRS. STOCKMANN
His wife

PETRA
Their daughter, a teacher

EJLIF     MORTEN
Their sons, thirteen and ten years old respectively

PETER STOCKMANN
The doctor’s elder brother, Burgomaster and chief of police, chairman of the Baths Committee, etc.

MORTEN KIIL
Owner of a tannery, Mrs. Stockmann’s foster-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

Table of Contents

Act I