Saint Joan/Major Barbara/Androcles and the Lion
George Bernard Shaw
479 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0394604806
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Language: English
Publish: 311241600000
With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc (canonized in 1920), but unhappy with “the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition,” he presents a realistic Joan: proud, intolerant, naïve, foolhardy, always brave-a rebel who challenged the conventions and values of her day.