The cover page is adapted from Joan of Arc, a painting completed in 1865 by John Everett Millais. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Everett_Millaiswww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Saint Joan
Chapters (8)
- Preface to Saint Joan 0:00
- Scene I 2:07:56
- Scene II 2:39:12
- Scene III 3:17:14
- Scene IV 3:30:27
- Scene V 4:04:40
- Scene VI 4:33:20
- Epilogue 5:41:31
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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 actresses to the part from the 1920s to the present day. It is mostly on account of this deep characterization that this is considered by some to be Shaw’s greatest play.