Saint Joan
Saint Joan Author: George Bernard Shaw
First Performance: 1923, New York
Published: 1924
Genre: Hist. drama in 6 scenes and an epilogue
Setting: Vaucouleurs, Chinon, near Orléans, Rheims, and Rouen, France, 1429–31, and 1456
Cast: 22m, 2f, extras
Joan, ‘the Maid of Lorraine’, persuades her local squire that her voices require him to provide her with horses and armed support to cross territory occupied by the English, so that she may visit the Dauphin. Despite being young and feeble, the Dauphin is immediately recognized by Joan amongst a group of courtiers. Together with Dunois, the ‘Bastard of Orléans’, Joan drives the English from Orléans. Alarmed by her success, the English, represented by the Earl of Warwick, strike an unlikely alliance with the French Church authorities, represented by...
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