![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this magnificent play he distilled many of the ideas he had been trying to express in earlier works on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution. With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. The volume includes Shaw's Preface of 1924 the cast list of the first production of Saint Joan a chronology and the essay "On Playing Joan" by Imogen Stubbs.įrom the Back Cover 'Everything she did was thoroughly calculated and though the process was so rapid that she was hardly conscious of it, and ascribed it all to her voices, she was a woman of policy and not of blind impulse' This is the definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc, but unhappy with the way she had traditionally been depicted, Shaw wanted to remove "the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition." He presents a realistic Joan: proud, intolerant, naïve, foolhardy, and brave-a rebel and a woman for Shaw's time and our own. Book Synopsis Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's powerful historical drama about Joan of Arc, which led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature-part of the official Bernard Shaw LibraryĪ Penguin Classic With Saint Joan, which distills many of the ideas Shaw had been exploring in earlier works on politics, religion, feminism, and creative evolution, he reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. ![]()
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