Soul's Inner Calling versus Religious Fanaticism
The familiar conventional view of Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431) pictures her as a romantic heroic soldier done to death by cruelly unjust repigious fanatics. Shaw’s Joan is still a simple unlettered country lass in her teens, a virgin soldier-saint, still the called-of-God, still the martyred-by-men.... Sign in to see full entry.