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• Title: From Heresy to Sainthood. Joan of Arc's Quest for Identity in Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.
• Author : Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 203 KB

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ABSTRACT Saint Joan by Shaw (1957) has been considered by many critics one of the playwright's finest literary and dramatic achievements. Other scholars point out that the play is a manifestation of the author's lack of historical insight and his inability to create an objective representation of Joan of Arc and her times. It remains astonishing, however, how many identities can this dramatic character be linked with. Dramatic characters, just like human beings in real life, not only possess identity (the self), but may also find themselves in a process of developing it. The context, defined by the group (the social) may eventually be affected by the character and the process is clearly visible in Shaw's play. Here, the phenomenon seems to well overreach the scope of the character's temporal frame. The disintegration within Joan's personality becomes the major drive of her quest. The interpretations of the aim of the pursuit may vary, but what is vital here is to see the way seemingly disparate ideas/identities (like a lunatic/a feminist/a heretic/a saint/a military genius/a virgin/an ignorant/a pioneer Protestant and others) are portrayed in one dramatic character and embodied by a teenage village girl who has become a favourite subject of artists and scholars alike for six centuries now.

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