J. B. | Archibald MacLeish
In the following essay excerpt, McWilliams discusses MacLeish's play and its resemblance to the Book of Job.
Commercially and critically, MacLeish earned the great bulk of his reputation as playwright with J.B. Originally staged by the Yale School of Drama in April 1958, J.B. played at the Brussels World's Fair in September and opened at the ANTA Theatre in New York on 11 December, 1958. After a run of 364 performances, the play closed on 24 October 1959. In published form, J.B. was a bestseller and translated into many foreign languages. Later productions were mounted in many nations including England France [The entire page is 1223 words long] The above is a free excerpt. Get total access to this content with the:
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