J.B.: A Play in Verse: A Pulitzer Prize Winner

J. B.: A Play in Verse is Archibald MacLeish’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job.The story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his family and wealth, but who refuses to turn his back on God. J.B.: A Play in Verse sparked a national conversation about the nature of God, the meaning of hope, and the role of the artist in society.”It was an inspiration to select the Biblical figure of Job as a prism in which to reflect the suffering and the injustice of our time.”–The Atlantic

Author: Archibald MacLeish
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 08/01/1989
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780395083536
Language: English