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J.B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job.The play is about J.B. (a stand-in for Job), a devout millionaire with a happy domestic life whose life is ruined.
According to scholar Paula Bennett, “the bulk of Sarah Piatt’s poetry can be divided into five thematic categories: poems on the Civil War and its aftermath, North and South; poems of gender (romance and marriage); poems about motherhood and to/on children; poems inspired by the Piatt’s stay in Ireland (1882-1893) and travels on the ...
The play has themes of nationalism and blood sacrifice. Colm Tóibín describes Michael as an "idealistic, inspirational" male hero in the tradition of Lady Gregory's plays The Rising of the Moon and Gaol Gate, and the Irish mythological hero Cuchulainn, because he is willing to sacrifice his life for his newfound nationalistic beliefs, unaffected by the "land-hunger" which occupies his family ...
The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. At the age of four and five, boys were sold to clean chimneys, due to their small size. These children were oppressed and had a diminutive existence that was socially accepted at the time.
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories The Complete Stories, Volume 2: The New York Times, Sunday, 5 January 1975 "Sarah Tops" (also as "Try Sarah Tops") 1975 The Key Word and Other Mysteries: Boys' Life, February 1975 "A Boy's Best Friend" 1975 The Complete Robot: Boys' Life, March 1975 "The One and Only East" 1975 More Tales of the Black Widowers
MILWAUKEE — The teenage shooter who killed a student and a teacher at a Christian school in Wisconsin on Monday brought two handguns to the attack, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told the ...
LL Cool J feels people will look back on him as "the most important rapper that ever existed" He made the claim during an interview on Apple Music's Le Code with host Mehdi Maïzi "I've done so ...
A man pleaded guilty in the 2015 killings of a Georgia couple after a magnet fisher pulled in a rifle and other evidence linked to the case.