{"product_id":"9783030278915","title":"Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePendergast, John\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eDie Jungfrau von Orleans \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Maid of Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e). The author elucidates Schiller’s appropriation of themes from Euripides’s Iphigenia plays, chiefly the quality of “sublime sanctity,” which transforms Joan’s image from a victim of fate to a warrior-prophet who changes history through sheer force of will.  Finding the best-known works of his time about her – Voltaire’s \u003ci\u003eLa pucelle d’Orléans and Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part I\u003c\/i\u003e – utterly dissatisfying, Schiller set out to replace them. \u003ci\u003eDie Jungfrau von Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e was a smashing success and inspired various subsequent treatments, including Verdi’s opera \u003ci\u003eGiovanna d’Arco\u003c\/i\u003e and a translation by the father of Russian Romanticism, Vasily Zhukovsky, on which Tchaikovsky based his opera \u003ci\u003eOrleanskaya deva\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Maid of Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e).  In turn, the book’s final chapter examines Shaw’s \u003ci\u003eSaint Joan\u003c\/i\u003e and finds that the Irish playwright’s vociferous complaints about Schiller’s “romantic flapdoodle” belie a surprising affinity for Schiller’s approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2020-11-19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030278915\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-27889-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 281\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47512881627276,"sku":"9783030278915","price":80.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030278915.jpg?v=1775961894","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030278915","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}