Saint Joan

'There are no villains in the piece... It is what men do at their best, with good intentions, and what normal men and women find that they must and will do inspite of their intentions, that really concern us.'

With Saint Joan Bernard Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. As early as 1913 he had expressed a desire to write a play about Joan of Arc, but it was ten years before he began to write it. The first performance took place in New York in December 1923 and, from the outset...