Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity

• Main Author: Pendergast, John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Drama.; European literature.; Theatre History.; European Literature.

This book examines the figure of Joan of Arc as depicted in stage works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially those based on or related to Schiller's 1801 romantic tragedy, Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans). The author elucidates Schiller's appropriation of the...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Palimpsest of Euripides, Shakespeare, and Voltaire
• Chapter 2. Sublime Sanctity: Schiller's New Tragic Joan
• Chapter 3. Lacuna and Enigma: Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco in Light of Schiller's Play
• Chapter 4. Patriotic Elegy and Epic Illusion: Schiller's Johanna in Russia
• Chapter 5. The Skeptic Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks: Shaw's Saint Joan. Concluding Thoughts on Joan in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries.  .