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Literature and Reception
Joan of Arc after the documents: drama, fiction, poetry, devotion, political memory, art, film, and the works through which later ages repeatedly remade her.
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Texts
Introduction to Joan of Arc in Literature and ReceptionA guide to Joan of Arc's afterlives in literature, theater, religion, politics, and film, centered on the transformations made by Shakespeare, Schiller, Mark Twain, and Bernard Shaw.King Henry VI, Part 1 — William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare's complete history play, whose forceful but hostile Pucelle became the foundational Joan of Arc of the English stage.Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Mark TwainMark Twain's complete two-volume 1896 historical novel of Joan of Arc, narrated by her fictional childhood companion and page Louis de Conte.Saint Joan — Bernard ShawBernard Shaw's 1923 chronicle play, including its long historical preface, six scenes, and epilogue, written in the immediate wake of Joan's canonization.The Maid of Orleans — Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller's influential 1801 romantic tragedy of Joan of Arc, translated by Anna Swanwick, with a transformed plot and an invented heroic ending.