Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Incredible" Job. The Christian Century's drama critic, the Rev. Tom F. Driver, who also teaches Practical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, criticized MacLeish for making his play a non sequitur by jumping down from the theological discussion between God and Satan to dwell upon J.B.'s purely human sufferings...
...later issue of the Century, Samuel Terrien, professor of Old Testament at Union, maintained that MacLeish's J.B. is an entirely different character from Job. The Bible's Job "shouts his pride, shrieks his blasphemy, and fights with a God who eludes his attacks." By comparison, Terrien finds MacLeish's J.B. "emasculated." He is merely "the diseased victim of fate, who hardly, if ever at all, rises above the level of intellectual stupor and spiritual impassivity...
...introduction and conclusion on a much lower level. Since the picture of Job is not consistent in the first place, says Van Dusen, Dr. Terrien's complaint that J.B. is not faithful to the Book of Job is irrelevant. Instead of "slavish imitation" of the Biblical Job, "Mr. MacLeish authentically sets forth the response of a very modern man to substantially parallel adversities. And again, his J.B. is far more convincing, as he is certainly vastly more moving, than the incredible...
...Loving" Job. In the current issue of the Century, Poet-Playwright MacLeish speaks out for himself. Whatever the opinions of scholars about the question of the Book of Job's split authorship, he takes it as a whole. The prologue in heaven is to him supremely important. Why, he asks, does God deliver the innocent Job into Satan's hands...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald MacLeish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...