Saint Joan of the Stockyards (tr. Jones)

Saint Joan of the Stockyards (tr. Jones)

Saint Joan of the Stockyards (tr. Jones)

Bertolt Brecht, Frank Jones

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Saint Joan of the Stockyards (tr. Jones)

Saint Joan of the Stockyards (tr. Jones)

Bertolt Brecht, Frank Jones

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Lithuanian immigrants adrift in Chicago work in the stockyards where men are known to have slipped once and emerged from the plant in lard cans. Brecht's heroine, Joan, "wanted to know" and Brecht, with Marxism an influence and the Chicago Stockyards a setting, is the amiable teacher in the chosen city badly in need of an "entry of mankind ..." into its maw.

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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright, poet and director, was born in Augsburg, Germany in February 1898. He established himself as a playwright during the 1920s and early 1930s with plays such as Baal, Man is Man, The Threepenny Opera and The Mother. In 1933, as Hitler came ...
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Frank Jones