Saint Joan
Автор:
George Bernard ShawЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-08-04Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
57
Description
Saint Joan stands out among George Bernard Shaw’s plays. He’s best known for drawing-room plays exploring social issues; here he writes something closer to a Shakespearean history play, following the fifteenth-century French national hero Joan of Arc through her campaigns and beyond.
Shaw’s preface to the play argues that other tellings of Joan’s story do her a disservice by idealizing her and demonizing her antagonists. By refusing to show the prosecutors at Joan’s trial as cartoonish villains, Shaw introduces real drama into what could easily be cheap melodrama. And Shaw’s fully human Joan is one of his finest creations, which has attracted great...
