Saint Joan
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Publishing Details
Saint Joan
By (Author) George Bernard Shaw
Edited by Dan Laurence
Introduction by Joley Wood
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
17th September 2001
25th January 2001
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
822.912
Physical Properties
Paperback
192
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm
150g
Description
Penguin Classics relaunch One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution.
Reviews
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
[Shaw] did his best in redressing the fateful unbalance between truth and reality, in lifting mankind to a higher rung of social maturity. He often pointed a scornful finger at human frailty, but his jests were never at the expense of humanity.Thomas Mann
Shaw will not allow complacency; he hates second-hand opinions; he attacks fashion; he continually challenges and unsettles, questioning and provoking us even when he is making us laugh. And he is still at it. No clich or truism of contemporary life is safe from him.Michael Holroyd
In his works Shaw left us his mind. . . . Today we have no Shavian wizard to awaken us with clarity and paradox, and the loss to our national intelligence is immense.The Sunday Times
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
His plays were superb exercises in high-level argument on every issue under the sun, from feminism and God, to war and eternity, but they were also hitsand still are.The Daily Mail
Author Bio
Dublin-born George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He was strongly critical of London theatre and closely associated with the intellectual revival of British drama. Dan H. Laurence (series editor) has edited Shaw's Collected Letters and Collected Plays with their Prefaces. Imogen Stubbs is an actress and has played leading roles on stage, television and in film. Joley Wood has taught Anglo-Irish literature at Trinity College, Dublin.
