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Actors rehearse a play about this person on a bare stage while feuding with their director Jimmy Masters in the frame story of a play by Maxwell Anderson. In a monologue that opens “yes, they told me you were fools,” this person claims, “You think that life is nothing but not being stone dead. It is not the bread and water I fear.” In a play about this person, a soldier returns on his one day off from hell in a surreal epilogue set (*) 25 years later. (10[1])In another play, a protagonist based on this historical person joins the Black Straw Hats and opposes the meat-packing tycoon Pierpont Mauler. Lillian Hellman translated a play about this real woman by Jean Anouilh, (10[2])titled The Lark. Bertolt Brecht adapted this woman’s story to the Chicago stockyards. For 10 points, a George (10[1])Bernard Shaw play is titled for what saint, the subject of Friedrich Schiller’s play The Maid of Orleans? ■END■

ANSWER: Joan of Arc [or Jeanne d’Arc; accept Saint Joan; accept Saint Joan of the Stockyards or Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe; accept Joan of Lorraine]
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