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100 1 _aHaarla, Lauri,
_d1890-1944
245 1 0 _aPyhä Yrjänä, eli Runous, rakkaus ja raha
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-13
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Pyhä Yrjänä, eli Runous, rakkaus ja raha: kolminäytöksinen huvinäytelmä" by Haarla is a three-act comedy play written in the early 20th century. It’s a sharp, metatheatrical satire where a penniless writer engineers a charity staging of the Saint George legend to pit poetry, love, and money against one another in a small-city milieu. The comedy revolves around the ambitious actor Eevert Urpia, the powerful mayor Adam Bilde, Bilde’s captivated wife Ruth, the exacting critic Ihanelma Palmu, and the barber–balladeer Polle, as desire and finance clash on and off the stage. Expect playful irreverence about cultural authority, sly plotting, and romantic entanglements that threaten public respectability. The opening of the play sets the scene in the mayor’s grand home, where the impoverished playwright Hans Korp spars with a vain actor, a cautious theater director, and a self-important critic, while secretly ferrying a note from Ruth to the actor Urpia. Spotting a chance to turn life into drama, Korp rewrites the pious Saint George pageant into a bolder love-and-revolt piece: during rehearsal the crowd (egged on by Lill’ Margit) cries down the “king,” Urpia’s Saint George openly woos Ruth-as-princess, and the enraged mayor storms in, vowing to fire Urpia. At the start of the second act in the “Nubia” restaurant, Polle pines for Lill’ Margit, Selma pleads and is rebuffed by Urpia, and Ruth arrives, determined to choose love; Korp insists they need cunning, not blunt confession, to outwit the mayor. He then stage-manages a farcical trap with Lill’ Margit on a sofa and Bilde arriving alone, a setup poised to compromise the mayor just as other guests begin to enter. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Otava, 1926
653 _aFinnish drama -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76271
999 _c116996
_d116996