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Saint Joan

A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue

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Saint Joan

By: Bernard Shaw
Narrated by: Amy Irving, Edward Herrmann, Kristoffer Tabori
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With Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc but unhappy with "the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition," he presents a realistic Joan at war not just with British invaders but with realpolitik. This is a masterpiece of the theater of ideas, presented in the most eloquent, vital, human, and moving terms. Blackstone commissioned this production from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear.

Public Domain (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Drama & Plays European Fiction Literary Fiction
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  • Audie Award Winner, Audio Drama, 2011

“St. Joan contains not only some of the playwright's most acerbic writing but also his most poetic.” (New York Times)
“...[T]he most fervent thing Shaw ever wrote – the play that is poetically the most moving, that comes closest to high tragedy, a work inspired with a truly elating sense of justice; a work in which the mature rationality of en esprit fort that has outgrown the confines of the eighteenth and even the nineteenth century, bows before sanctity; a work fully deserving its world fame.” (Thomas Mann)

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Eloquent performance

The flow and clarity of quite complex language. The verbal scene setting. The historical background.

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