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.
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.
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 cliche 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 hits--and still are."
--The Daily Mail
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