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Original Title:	Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
ISBN:	0140437916 (ISBN13: 9780140437911)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, Jean de Dunois, Robert de Baudricourt, Steward to Robert de Baudricourt, Bertrand de Poulengey, Monseigneur de la Trémouille, Lord Chamberlain, Duchess de la Trémouille, Archbishop of Rheims, Étienne de Vignolles, Page to Dunois, John de Stogumber, English chaplain, Canon John D'Estivet, Joan of Arc, Charles VII of France, Gilles de Rais
Setting:	France
Literary Awards:	Audie Award for Audio Drama (2011)

Saint Joan

George Bernard Shaw

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 6575 Users | 280 Reviews

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Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial. Shaw studied the transcripts and decided that the concerned people acted in good faith according to their beliefs. He wrote in his preface to the play: There are no villains in the piece. Crime, like disease, is not interesting: it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all [there is] about it. It is what men do at their best, with good intentions, and what normal men and women find that they must and will do in spite of their intentions, that really concern us.
Shaw characterised Saint Joan as "A Chronicle Play in 6 Scenes and an Prologue or Preface". Joan, a simple peasant girl, claims to experience visions of Saint Margaret, Saint Catherine, and the archangel Michael, which she says were sent by God to guide her conduct.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و ششم ماه فوریه سال 2012 میلادی
عنوان: ژاندارک (ژان مقدس)؛ نویسنده: جرج برنارد شاو؛ مترجم: محمود حیدریان (آرش)؛ تهران، گام، 1363؛در 215 ص؛
یادمان بماند که: ذره ای حقیقت پشت هر «فقط یه شوخی بود»، کمی کنجکاوی پشت «همینطوری پرسیدم»، قدری احساسات پشت «به من چه اصلا...»، و مقداری خِرَد پشت «چه میدونم»، و اندکی درد پشت «اشکال ندارد»، هماره هست
ژاندارک یا دوشیزه ی ارلئان، دوشیزه ی قهرمان ملی فرانسه، و دوشیزه ای در کلیسای کاتولیک بودند. در جنگ صد ساله بر ضد انگلستان، رهبری فرانسوی‌ها را برعهده داشتند. در نزدیکی شهر کُنپی ینی، به خاطر خیانت شهردار شهر، توسط بورگونی‌ها، اسیر و به انگلیسی‌ها فروخته شد. ژان دارک در یک دادگاه کلیسایی، توسط اسقفِ بووه پیر کوشون، به جرم ضدیت با قوانین کلیسا، محکوم، و در میدان ویومارشه شهرِ روآن، سوزانده شد. چندی بعد، در یک دادگاه تجدیدنظر، در سال 1456 میلادی، شرافت این دوشیزه ی قهرمان، باز هم به اثبات رسید. ا. شربیانی

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Title	:	Saint Joan
Author	:	George Bernard Shaw
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	January 25th 2001 by Penguin Classics (first published 1923)
Categories	:	Plays. Classics. Drama. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Theatre

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For decades I have believed that the only reason I did not love this play was because I encountered it too early in my education. It was assigned in high school, when I was devoutly Catholic, and I bristled at Shaw's clear lack of sympathy for my religion. This was also the first rhetorically heavy play I had read. It was most definitely beyond me intellectually. Well, I'm older now, better educated, and no longer Catholic and...I am still not in love with it, but for very different reasons.Shaw

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength. Thus spoke Joan when her allies, those she had made great, abandoned her to death. Such loyalty they showed her in life. Without her they literally would have got nowhere. Joan was a solider, and in the end they treated her like a solider; they pointed her at Frances enemies and when her work was done they cast her aside. She was expendable to them, a mere

I first heard St. Joan performed on Chicago's WFMT as a radio play as a little boy. This is to say that my parents listened to it and allowed me to stay up for the whole thing. The production included the voices she claimed to hear. I had had auditions myself in feverish states and the portrayal was fascinatingly reminiscent. The whole while a spider was building her web on the lamp at my right hand, a web finished and already catching moths by the time of the play's conclusion.I next read the

Images of Falconetti burned into my mind as I read, perhaps music of Messiaen. Fete des belles eaux? This is a very orthodox tale of moral and legal convulsion. Add a dash of divine nationalism and voila. This Joan was rather quick witted, other representations have as a nascent martyr. Her oppressors, oppressively oafish--while Bluebeard muses of the Divine Rights and the souls of lumpen children (entertaining something ghastly--only Allah knows. GB Shaw has impressed me this week, not only for

What a goddamn brilliant play. Ive gone round in my head about this a lot since I finished it three weeks ago, because parts of it dont fit together quite well to me, and parts of it are hilarious, and parts of it seem overlabored, but those speeches stick in your brain like an earworm and overall reading this left me with weeks of that sense of wonder we all chase after when we read. The thing about Shaw is that he has a vision for this play, and the vision is a huge and grand one, worthy of

Most Joan of Arc stories are rather one sided. They clothe Joan in a white hat and the Inquisitors in black hats. the plot turns into a rather bland "hero's journey". Shaw doesn't do that. He looked at the story through a sympathetic lens. It was refreshing to catch myself agreeing with the "bad guys". When Joan came face to face with her judge and jury, I could feel the conflict within some of the jury members regarding Joan's status as Saint or Witch. I feel like Shaw was using this story as

I'm fascinated by Joan of Arc, so reading this play was a no-brainer for me. SAINT JOAN doesn't attempt to be biographical; rather, it spends a lot of time dealing with the ways in which church leaders and politicians were scandalized by Joan and her accomplishments. Shaw's writing is brilliant (as I've come to expect from him), and the play aptly demonstrates how people would much rather venerate a dead saint than listen to a live one.