Characters

AASE, widow of a farmer

PEER GYNT,1 her son

TWO PEASANT WOMEN with sacks of grain

ASLAK, a blacksmith

WEDDING GUESTS, MASTER OF CEREMONIES, FIDDLER, etc.

AN INCOMER and his WIFE

SOLVEIG and HELGA, their daughters

THE HÆGGSTAD FARMER

INGRID, his daughter

MADS MOEN, the bridegroom, and his PARENTS

THREE GIRLS from the seter2

A WOMAN IN GREEN

THE TROLL KING3

TROLL COURTIER and others like him

TROLL MAIDENS and TROLL CHILDREN

TWO WITCHES

AN UGLY CHILD

BOYG4

BIRD VOICES

KARI, a crofter’s wife

MR COTTON, M. BALLON, HERR V. EBERKOPF, HERR TRUMPETERSTRAALE, travelling gentlemen

A THIEF and A FENCE

ANITRA, daughter of a Bedouin chieftain

ARABS, FEMALE SLAVES and ATTENDANTS at a Moroccan camp

THE STATUE OF MEMNON (singing)

THE SPHINX AT GIZA (silent)

BEGRIFFENFELDT, Professor, Ph.D., director of the Cairo madhouse

HUHU, an advocate of language reform from the Malabar coast

A FELLAH carrying a royal mummy

HUSSEIN, a Near Eastern cabinet minister

SEVERAL INMATES OF THE MADHOUSE together with their GUARDS

A NORWEGIAN SHIP’S CAPTAIN and his CREW

A STRANGE PASSENGER

A PRIEST

A FUNERAL PROCESSION

A SHERIFF

A BUTTON MOULDER

A THIN MAN