Characters
- Halvard Solness, master builder.
- Aline Solness, his wife.
- Doctor Herdal, physician.
- Knut Brovik, formerly an architect, now in Solness's employment.
- Ragnar Brovik, Knut Brovik's son, a draftsman.
- Kaia Fosli, a book-keeper.
- Hilda Wangel, a character introduced earlier, in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea.
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