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Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

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Book name: Saint Joan (2024)
Category: Plays
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Pages: 163 pages
ISBN13: 0140437916
ISBN: 0140437916
Language: English
Publication data: May 1, 2001, 7 a.m.
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.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

11 books

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. In these works S… Read more