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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Introduction to Joan of Arc in Literature and Reception — A 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 Shakespeare — William Shakespeare's complete history play, whose forceful but hostile Pucelle became the foundational Joan of Arc of the English stage.
Saint Joan — Bernard Shaw — Bernard 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 Schiller — Friedrich Schiller's influential 1801 romantic tragedy of Joan of Arc, translated by Anna Swanwick, with a transformed plot and an invented heroic ending.