The Lark

Lark, The (L'Alouette)

    Author: Jean Anouilh

    First Performance: 1953, Paris

    Published: 1953

    First English Translation: 1955

    Genre: Drama in 2 acts; French prose

    Setting: Rouen, France, 1431

    Cast: 17m, 3f

Joan of Arc (‘the lark’) has been captured and brought to trial, but her judge Bishop Cauchon insists that scenes from her past should be re-enacted: her departure from her humble life in Domrémy, her persuading Beaudricourt to provide her with a horse and escort, her convincing the Dauphin to be brave and fight the English by putting her in command of the army. The Earl of Warwick is less impressed, believing that Joan merely provided a rallying symbol for people to go out and get killed. At last, the trial gets under way. Joan glorifies the contradictory nature of humanity,...

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