“You wanted justice, didn't you? There isn't
any...there is only love." ―J.B's wife in Archibald MacLeish, J.B.: A Play in Verse (1958)
This day in 1958 marked the premiere, at the ANTA
Playhouse in New York City, of J.B., a drama in free verse, a modern retelling of The
Book of Job (with the Biblical figure reimagined as a banker), directed by Elia
Kazan. Archibald MacLeish, a former
Librarian of Congress and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, had
already won two Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, and now he would be awarded
another, for drama, with this production.
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