Word: job
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Menorah Society will present "The Book of Job," its first annual play, in Jordan Hall this evening at 8.30 o'clock. The production is the chief feature in the society's celebration of its decennial year...
...Job" is simple and static, in keeping with the theory that the poem was originally written in imitation of Euripides. To the large chorus have been assigned two lyrical passages which serve to break up the regular rounds of speeches by the three friends and Job's responses. At the beginning of the play occurs a colloquy between the Lord and The Adversary similar to that between Athene and Poseidon in "The Trojan Women" or to that of Apollo and Death in the "Alkestis," and with this is presented Job's calamity as a forceful prologue to the suffering caused...
...Menorah Society play, "The Book of Job," in Jordan Hall, Boston...
Although given in English, "The Book of Job" is presented in the Grecian manner, as the presence of the Greek choregus and chorus in the cast indicate. There is a prologue and an epilogue recited by the choregus, who is the leader of the chorus during the progress of the drama. Settings for the play are designed in the modern fashion, patterned to some extent after those used by Granville Barker in his production of Euripides' "The Trojan Women" in the Stadium a year...
...play deals with the problem of the punishment of the innocent and the security and immunities of the wicked. It attempts to solve the problem through the sufferings of Job but gives up in despair...