Peer Gynt

PEER GYNT

(1867)

CHARACTERS.

• Åse,¹ a peasant’s widow.
• Peer Gynt,¹ her son.
• Two Old Women with corn-sacks. Aslak, a smith. Wedding Guests. A Kitchen-Master, A Fiddler, ETC.
• A Man and Wife, newcomers to the district.
• Solveig and Little Helga, their daughters.
• The Farmer at Hegstad.
• Ingrid, his daughter.
• The Bridegroom and His Parents.
• Three Sæter-Girls. A Green-Clad Woman.
• The Old Man of the Dovrë.
• A Troll-Courtier. Several Others. Troll-Maidens and Troll-Urchins. A Couple of Witches. Brownies, Nixies, Gnomes, ETC.
• An Ugly Brat. A Voice in the Darkness. Bird-Cries.
• Kari, a cottar’s wife.
• Master Cotton, Monsieur Ballon, Herren Von Eberkopf and Trumpeterstråle, gentlemen on their travels. A Thief and A Receiver.
• Anitra, daughter of a Bedouin chief.
• Arabs, Female Slaves, Dancing-Girls, ETC.
• The Memnon-Statue (singing). The Sphinx At Gizeh (muta persona).
• Professor Begriffenfeldt, Dr. phil., director of the madhouse at Cairo.
• Huhu, a language-reformer from the coast of Malabar. Hussein, an eastern Minister. A Fellah, with a royal mummy.
• Several Madmen, with their Keepers.
• A Norwegian Skipper and His Crew. A Strange Passenger.
• A Pastor. A Funeral-Party. A Parish-Officer. A Button-Moulder. A Lean Person.

(The action, which opens in the beginning of the present [that is the nineteenth] century, and ends towards our own days [1867], takes place partly in Gudbrandsdale, and on the mountains around it, partly on the coast of Morocco, in the desert of Sahara, in a madhouse at Cairo, at sea, etc.)