The action takes places in Nuremberg about the middle of the sixteenth century.
Act 1: Inside St. Katherine's church
The T.U.C. and some of the larger unions now offer a wide variety of courses of practical further education. At the same time the traditional forms of adult education-such as those provided by university extra-mural departments and the Workers' Educational Association-appear to be attracting fewer manual workers.
DAVID WORSWICK argues that this is an unhealthy situation and examines the proposals for its remedy made in the recently published W.E.A. report on Trade Union Education by H. A. Clegg and Rex Adams.
Acr 2: A street with the houses of Pogner and Sachs
Deryck Cooke discusses our time's anti-romantic illusion
(1887-1959)
A selection of his poems chosen and introduced by T. S. Eliot o.M. ,
Readers:
Frank Duncan and James McKechnie
Act 3
Scene 1: Sachs's workshop
Scene 2: An open meadow on the river
Pegnitz
SYLVIA BEACH , who was the first publisher of Joyce's Ulysses, talks about her childhood in the United States, her youth in Paris, where she started her bookshop ' Shakespeare and Co.,' and the years of the last war when she was interned by the Germans.
