Saint Joan
$25.83
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
26 January 2022
Summary
The life of fifteenth-century heroine Joan of Arc is the stuff of legend, and her cruel death (burnt at the stake aged just nineteen) led to her being declared a martyr, granting her an extraordinary legacy.
Following her canonisation in 1920, and against a history of overly romanticised retellings of the story, Bernard Shaw put pen to paper to give a more accurate account, without resorting to demonising her persecutors; as he writes in his preface, ‘there are no villains in the piec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913724658 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913724654 |
| Author: | George Bernard Shaw, Simon Mundy |
| Publisher: | Renard Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Renard Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 26 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘He was a Tolstoy with jokes, a modern Dr Johnson, a universal genius who on his own modest reckoning put even Shakespeare in the shade.’ (The Independent)
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was Nobel Prize-winning writer, political activist and critic. One of the most important writers of the twentieth century, he has been described as ‘second only to Shakespeare in the British theatrical tradition’. Although he wrote over sixty plays, he is best remembered today for Man and Superman, Pygmalion and Saint Joan.
Simon Mundy studied drama at university, but soon veered towards writing poetry and reviews, and at 23 he found himself a music critic and arts journalist. A champion of the arts, he has served as Director of the National Campaign for the Arts and Vice-President of PEN International’s Writers for Peace Committee, and he co-founded the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage; he remains an adviser to the European Festivals Association. His writing includes biographies, novels, non-fiction, playscripts and poetry.
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