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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