Saint Joan of the Stockyards

by Bertolt Brecht
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
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29 ratings, 3.76 average rating, 2 reviews (more data...)
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published
August 10th 1998 by Arcade Publishing

binding
Paperback, 160 pages

isbn
1559704209   (isbn13: 9781559704205)

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Joan of Arc is Joan Dark in SAINT JOAN OF THE STOCKYARDS, Bertolt Brecht's first major political drama for the commercial theater. A virtuous knight i...more






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Amyhirsheybar
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04/06/08

Read in April, 2008
this play is the theatrical actualization of marx. joan of arc is turned into joan of dark and as she confronts the burdens of martyrdom she travles from ideology to ideology. at the hands of capitalism within the roots of the depression in the meat packing stockyard of chicago the mythical figure of joan transcends time and warrants an examination of what it means to be a truthseeker 600 years ago, 80 years ago and of course today. shit, why doesnt goodreads have spell check?
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megan
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07/03/08

Read in June, 2008
read this in preparation for visiting the apartment where brecht lived with helene weigel in berlin.
loved the way he puts religious idealism up against capitalist pragmatism and plays off the tensions between the two, the satirism cutting both ways. i think i need to read up more on the historical context to fully comprehend (the critical introduction in my copy is way lacking), but yeah, bring on the brecht.
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