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

John Pendergast is an Assistant Professor of Russian at West Point. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York, a master’s degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Arizona, and a bachelor’s degree in Music from Birmingham-Southern College. A graduate of the Russian program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, his research focuses on music and letters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia and Germany.

• 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.