George Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan
Saint Joan
Buch
- Herausgeber: Dan Laurence
- Penguin Books Ltd, 01/2001
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- ISBN-13: 9780140437911
- Bestellnummer: 5141777
- Umfang: 192 Seiten
- Gewicht: 149 g
- Maße: 200 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 14 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 25.1.2001
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Klappentext
'Everything she did was thoroughly calculated; and though the process was so rapid that she was hardly conscious of it, and ascribed it all to her voices, she was a woman of policy and not of blind impulse'With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. In this magnificent play he distilled many of the ideas he had been trying to express in earlier works on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc, but unhappy with the way she had traditionally been depicted, Shaw wanted to remove 'the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition'. He presents a realistic Joan: proud, intolerant, naive, foolhardy, always brave -- a rebel who challenged the conventions and values of her day. As Imogen Stubbs writes, 'All Joans are relevant but some Joans are more relevant than others -- I think Shaw's Saint Joan is the right one to be received by the twenty-first century'.
The definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence