Jeppe on the Hill; Or, The Transformed Peasant: A Comedy in Five Acts
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Jeppe on the Hill; Or, The Transformed Peasant - Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg
Jeppe on the Hill; Or, The Transformed Peasant
A Comedy in Five Acts
EAN 8596547239529
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.
Jeppe on the Hill
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
JEPPE ON THE HILL
ACT I.
Scene 1.
Scene 2.
Scene 3.
Scene 4.
Scene 5.
Scene 6.
Scene 7.
Scene 8.
ACT II.
Scene 1.
Scene 2.
Scene 3.
ACT III.
Scene 1.
Scene 2.
Scene 3.
Scene 4.
ACT IV.
Scene 1.
Scene 2.
Scene 3.
Scene 4.
Scene 5.
Scene 6.
ACT V.
Scene 1.
Scene 2.
Scene 3.
Scene 4.
Scene 5.
Scene 6.
INTRODUCTION.
Table of Contents
Jeppe on the Hill
(Jeppe paa Bjerget) is probably the best known of Holberg's many comedies. It was first presented in the Danish Theatre in 1722, and has since then been played times without number and with continued appreciation. It is a plain picture of peasant life, with the ludicrous side turned out, of course, but so faithful in detail and comprehensive in character that it has become known as the best expression of medieval conditions in the Scandinavian language, the classic representation of the medieval peasant in northern Europe. The plot of the play is briefly thus:
Jeppe, the principal character, is a poor oppressed peasant, abused by his wife and trodden down by his superiors. We are introduced in the opening scene to his wife, Nille, a veritable Xanthippe transplanted to the eighteenth century. With her shrill voice and stout whip,—Master Erik, by name,—she drives him out at an unreasonably early hour to go an unreasonable long distance for an insignificant amount of soap. She is, in fact, a true counterpart of Dame Van Winkle, wielding authority over a poor, weak Rip. Without so much as a cup of coffee, he starts with his dozen pence with which he is to make his purchase. On the way he stops in at the rascally innkeeper's, Jakob Skomager's, who induces the vacillating Jeppe to part little by little with his money until the poor peasant finds himself broke,
and with nothing to show for his departed coin but a glorious drunk.
After a soliloquy in which he calls to mind his past life, especially his brief experience in the army, he is overcome by his intoxication and falls in a drunken stupor by the wayside. In this senseless condition he is found by his liege lord and master,
the nobleman, and his servants. They decide to play a joke on the fellow; they dress him in the baron's clothes, take him to the castle and put him in the baron's bed, and then wait near by to see the show.
When he awakes he is certainly the transformed—and perplexed—peasant. He is quite overcome by the splendor of his surroundings, thinks at one moment that he is in a dream, and next decides that he must be in paradise; he calls for his wife, receives no reply, and wonders whether he is really himself or someone else. He tries in vain to connect the past with the present. When the uniformed servants answer his cry for help the situation becomes comical indeed. When Jeppe is finally convinced by servants and doctors that he is the baron, he assumes his new role with a vengeance and begins by tyrannizing over the servants and calling them to account. He does not forget to satisfy his desire for good things to eat and drink and after some fast music and a dance with the overseer's wife, he is overcome once more, this time by the wines and excitement, and falls again into a stupor of intoxication. He is dressed in his old clothes and put back on the dungheap where he first was found. When he awakes he finds himself by the old familiar wayside in all his old toggery,—plain Jeppe on the Hill
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