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Theatre
Clurman, Harold | September 29, 1956 issue

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The article focuses on the Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan." Shaw's Saint Joan dramatizes the different ways in which people confront life. Joan faces life by a headlong assault on its chief burden, the forced presence of a foreigner on her homeland. She is inspired by moral passion. The Dauphin wants to do no more than his poor means permit, he is therefore weak and comic. Dunois is a practical soldier who wants to go only as far as the common facts of military reality extend, that is why he is cautious. The Archbishop wishes to control reality through dependence on traditional authority. He is moved by Joan.

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SAINT Joan (Theatrical production); CHILDREN'S plays; ASSAULT & battery; VISITORS, Foreign; SOLDIERS; BISHOPS
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