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Saint Joan of the Stockyards (Midland Books, No 127)
Saint Joan of the Stockyards - Midland Books, No 127 Author:Bertolt Brecht With the writing of Saint Joan of the Stockyards (1929-1930), Bertolt Brecht for the first time was able to turn his hope of writing a play that "corresponds to the sociological situation" into a reality. Brecht's metrics include borrowings from Schiller's The Maid of Orleans, Goethe's Faust II, and Holderlin's Hyperion, and the play's content ... more »is derived from Upton Sinclair, Bernard Shaw, and Lincoln Steffens. The result is pure Brechtian epic.« less