Saint Joan
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0887345689 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 81 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent Play -- Not so Excellent Printing LitGirl123 This is a fantastic play! It is funny, witty, and chock-full of biting satire. I was very happy with the content. The print layout was the only problem I had with this edition. It is somewhat tedious to read because the characters names are not clearly delineated from their lines. I often found myself having to back track to figure out who was speaking. Aside from that, I highly r. Shaw's Ridiculous, Inaccurate Jehanne d'Arc A Customer I was truly disappointed by Shaw's wholly inaccurate, blatantly chauvanistic Preface (Shaw actually contends that Jehanne was tried more than fairly by sympathetic, God-fearing and open-minded men, and that she was burned as a result of her own stupidity!). I was more disappointed by the play itself-it is not a play about Jehanne's life, but rather about the pompous musings of mal. Jeanette Romee said Drama Instead of History. This is George Bernard Shaw's most important work. A successful drama that has enjoyed continuous popularity for nearly eighty years is worth a read. Most audiences find it very satisfying. Shaw has a gift for lucid dialogue that brings a centuries old story to life. This is one of the most approachable of the great English language plays.Why then does "Saint Joan" fall short of f
There are no villains in the piece. It is what men do at their best, with good intentions, and what normal men and women find that they must and will do in spite of their intentions, that really concern us.. Crime, like disease, is not interesting: it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all there is about it
Canonization tends to strip a saint of supposedly un-Christian attributes such as rebelliousness, pride, and intolerance. In the play's famous epilogue, Shaw suggests that even 400 years later, most of us are so limited by our own perspectives that we are unable to tell the difference between a saint and a heretic. Until the closing scene of Shaw's play, however, neither Joan nor her foes are cast in neatly heroic terms. And Joan, despite having been a stubborn, haughty, naive, even foolish girl, has for much of history been remembered only as a pious martyr. However, George Bernard Shaw's play, Saint Joan, completed in 1925, began the modern rehabilitation of the icon as a fully human, fallible character--not to mention a poster girl for teenage rebellion and feminism. "O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will i