Project Gutenberg 2025-06-16 Public domain in the USA. 372 Shaw, Bernard 1856 1950 Shaw, George Bernard Shaw, Bernhard Shaw, G. Bernard (George Bernard) Bassetto, Corno di Shaw, G. B. (George Bernard) 24016535 Saint Joan : $b A chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue $aNew York :$bBrentano's, $c1924. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joan_(play) The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) "Saint Joan: a Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue" by Bernard Shaw is a play written in the early 20th century. It dramatizes the rise of Joan of Arc, her battlefield leadership and coronation campaign, and her prosecution by church and state, probing the collision between visionary conscience and institutional authority. The opening of the work is a substantial preface that reinterprets Joan as a sane, shrewd, and practical visionary whose “voices” reflect an intense imaginative faculty rather than madness. It argues that she was destroyed less for witchcraft than for her presumptuous independence and the threat she posed to entrenched powers, while noting that her trial was legally careful by medieval standards yet morally horrific in outcome. The preface critiques earlier portrayals (from Shakespeare and Schiller to Voltaire, Mark Twain, and Anatole France), rejects melodramatic villainy, and reframes the conflict as tragedy born of normal people acting under powerful institutions. It surveys tensions between nationalism and a universal Church, genius and discipline, and medieval and modern forms of intolerance. Finally, it explains the play’s dramatic method—historical compression, emphasis on the medieval atmosphere, and the choice to portray figures like Cauchon, Lemaître, and Warwick as serious exponents of their systems rather than stock antagonists. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Saint_Joan/z-Y2AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 20240327184407shaw 1924 US Reading ease score: 80.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Drama France -- History -- Charles VII, 1422-1461 -- Drama Christian women saints -- Drama PR Text Category: Plays/Films/Dramas Category: Classics of Literature Category: British Literature Nobel Prizes in Literature 556478 2025-09-30T07:18:19.808306 text/html 530122 2025-06-16T10:15:47 text/html 712680 2025-09-30T07:18:30.152277 application/epub+zip 429224 2025-09-30T07:18:22.265314 application/epub+zip 379371 2025-09-30T07:18:20.814322 application/epub+zip 1231666 2025-09-30T07:18:34.935241 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1152347 2025-09-30T07:18:28.971237 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 350882 2025-09-30T07:18:17.622319 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 331011 2025-06-16T10:15:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17203 2025-09-30T07:18:35.089717 application/rdf+xml 18142 2025-09-30T07:18:21.148287 image/jpeg 2481 2025-09-30T07:18:20.979310 image/jpeg 1611367 2025-09-30T07:18:19.874277 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia