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As Moll Flanders struggles for survival amid the harsh social realities of seventeenth-century England, there is but one thing she is determined to avoid: the deadly snare of poverty. On the twisting path that leads from her birth in Newgate Prison to her final prosperous respectability, love is regarded as worth no more than its weight in gold; and such matters as bigamy, incest, theft, and prostitution occasion but a brief blush before they are reckoned in terms of profit and loss. Yet so pure is her candor, so healthy her animal appetites, so indomitable her resiliency through every vicissitude of fortune, that this extraordinary woman emerges as one of the most appealing heroines in English literature. With a New Introduction and with an Afterword by Regina Barreca

Text des Druckes von 1587. Kritische Ausgabe. Hrsg.: Füssel, Stephan; Kreutzer, Hans Joachim.

Brecht's "Saint Joan of the Stockyards" explores the rampant speculation in meat and livestock against the backdrop of a crisis of overproduction. Set in the stockyards and meat market of Chicago, the play reveals the contradictions of society exacerbated by advanced capitalism. Johanna Dark, a Salvation Army soldier, witnesses the plight of workers excluded and starving due to the meat factories. In her quest to understand the reasons behind their exclusion, she encounters the meat king, Pierpont Mauler, who unsuccessfully tries to win her over to his cause. Ultimately, Johanna, also rejected by the poor, meets her demise in the stockyards. The play makes the "entangled processes" transparent, illustrating their underlying laws and using them as a means to drive the events forward.