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Book Information: Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Saint Joan of the Stockyards (1930) [Play]
by Bertolt Brecht Rating: Weighted - 8.6 / Average - 9.0 of 10 (1 votes) (Rate!)
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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 in a Christian army of salvation, she makes the stockyards her field of battle when she clashes with Pierpoint Mauler, meat king and philanthropist, over the heart of business and the soul of labor

Original title: Die heilige Johanne der Schlachthöfe
Original languages: English

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Genre: Drama and Plays→ German

This work is a subwork of the following works :
From the Modern Repertoire: Series Three (1956) [Anthology]
Authors: Émile Zola , Bertolt Brecht , Jean Anouilh , Robinson Jeffers , Arthur Schnitzler , Jean Cocteau , Georg Büchner , Alfred de Musset , Jules Romains