The night Thoreau spent in jail
a play in two acts
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
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"Produced around the country under the American Playwrights Theatre program, this drama opens with Thoreau in jail for refusing to pay taxes to a government conducting a war of aggression in Mexico, at midpoint shows Emerson visiting him, and ends on the morning of his release. Scenes portray his return from Harvard where he idolized Emerson, his attempt to establish a transcendentalist school, his career as a handyman and tutor in Emerson's household, his romance and his friendship with an illiterate cellmate. The end is a grotesque dream in which the characters take up guises in a mortal assault on Mexico"--Publisher's website.
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The night Thoreau spent in jail
2005, Alexander Street Press
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in English
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The night Thoreau spent in jail: a play in two acts
2000, Samuel French
in English
0573613001 9780573613005
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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail: The most famous act of civil disobedience in American history
1982, Bantam Classics
Paperback
in English
055327838X 9780553278385
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