« Beauvoir. Who Shall Die? »
(2023) The Literary Encyclopedia — ISBN: [0691154910], published
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- This play takes place in the 14th century, in the city of Vaucelles, Flanders (now Belgium). It tells the story of the inhabitants who liberated the city from the domination of a duke who exercised monarchical power. Despite this revolution, the city had to undergo an enemy siege that blocked the city’s essential supplies. Food was dwindling and the population was increasingly hungry. Help might not arrive for months, but it would be too late. It was, then, a question of knowing whether it was necessary to continue to share the food equitably (knowing that there would not be enough), or if it was necessary to sacrifice a part of the population so that the men workers and soldiers could have enough to eat. The elected officials of the city took the decision to expel ‘useless mouths’; that was, all those people who did not work in the service of the common good: women, the elderly, and children.
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Malinge, Y. (2023). « Beauvoir. Who Shall Die? ». In Robert Clark (ed.), The Literary Encyclopedia. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236258