Project Gutenberg 2025-05-17 Public domain in the USA. 104 Overskou, Thomas 1798 1873 Törmänen, C. Edv. 1855 1880 Tormanen, C. Edv. Törmänen, Carl Edward Törmänen, Edvard Törmänen, Edw. Törmänen, Edv. Roistoväkeä eli Ylemmistä ja alemmisto : $b Huvinäytelmä viidessä näytöksessä $aHämeenlinna :$bHämäläisen Osakeyhtiö, $c1878. Tapio Riikonen "Roistoväkeä eli Ylemmistä ja alemmisto : Huvinäytelmä viidessä näytöksessä." by TH. Overskou is a comedic play written in the mid-19th century. It satirizes social climbing and the tensions between “upper” and “lower” classes in Copenhagen, centering on the cash-strapped clerk Johannes Vagtel, his status-conscious wife Kristine, their idealistic son August, their wealthy ward Mathilde Ström, the blunt book-peddler Pehr Qvit, the seaman Palle Blok and his daughter Grethe, the ambitious official Fredrik Dahl, and the oily Baron Lillie. Love across class lines and hypocrisy around money, respectability, and funerals drive the humor and conflict. The opening of the play shows Vagtel and his wife squabbling over money before a social evening, while Vagtel recalls how his forthright friend Qvit secured him the post of treasurer for a burial fund and rails against wasteful customs, especially lavish funerals. Grethe, the Blok family’s daughter working as the Vagtels’ maid, is harshly treated by Kristine; Qvit and August defend her, and August quietly confesses his love, which Grethe returns. Palle Blok arrives to ask leave for Grethe to come home to celebrate a small windfall; after comic maneuvers—including Palle’s advice on taming a domineering spouse—Kristine relents, and we glimpse Fredrik Dahl’s awkward, concealed ties to Grethe and his growing regard for Mathilde. By the end of the first act Vagtel still hunts for money to fund the household’s appearances. Early in the second act, Baron Lillie pesters Grethe until Mathilde intervenes; Mathilde denies any wish to marry the baron and hatches a plan to visit Grethe’s family incognito, while Fredrik and Mathilde exchange constrained, revealing courtesies and Grethe warns Fredrik to skip the evening because someone there might recognize him—the tension cutting off mid-conversation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20231009080936overskou 1878 FI Reading ease score: 53.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. fi Danish drama -- Translations into Finnish PT Text Category: Humour Category: Plays/Films/Dramas 273606 2025-07-30T06:43:38.941842 text/html 182625 2025-07-30T06:43:47.649737 application/epub+zip 185226 2025-07-30T06:43:42.530796 application/epub+zip 149936 2025-07-30T06:43:41.233785 application/epub+zip 416712 2025-07-30T06:43:51.032747 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 385451 2025-07-30T06:43:46.762807 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 223222 2025-07-30T06:43:38.545813 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 203331 2025-05-17T13:36:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13788 2025-07-30T06:43:51.184740 application/rdf+xml 19295 2025-07-30T06:43:41.765804 image/jpeg 4181 2025-07-30T06:43:41.490856 image/jpeg 182995 2025-07-30T06:43:38.965845 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fi.wikipedia