Del i serien Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries

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

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvJohn Pendergast

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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).

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-19
Mått148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt391 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Antal sidor281
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030278915

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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.