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Saint Joan

by George Bernard Shaw

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1924
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Shaw takes the story of Joan of Arc and strips away both the halo and the villainy, presenting her instead as a plain-spoken country girl whose certainty unsettles everyone around her. The play follows her from the moment she persuades a reluctant captain to arm her, through the coronation of a king, to the church court that condemns her as a heretic. What makes it unusual is Shaw's fairness to the prosecution: the bishops and inquisitors are not monsters but reasonable men defending an order Joan threatens simply by trusting her own conscience. An epilogue jumps forward to her rehabilitation and eventual canonization. The work helped earn Shaw the Nobel Prize.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, and socialist polemicist who became the leading English-language dramatist of his era. A co-founder of the Fabian Society, he used comedy to attack social hypocrisy and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

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First published
1924
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
192
Language
English
Genre
Drama
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