Overview
- Offers insight into Joan of Arc's wide and enduring appeal to artists and audiences
- Holds interdisciplinary appeal across the fields of comparative literature, theatre, drama, women’s studies, and the performing arts
- Examines numerous scores and libretti
Part of the book series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries (BSC)
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“Elegantly interweaving the myriad tales, legends, plays, and operas about Joan of Arc, Pendergast shows his mythic heroine the greatest affection—all the while lamenting the absence of accurate details about her real life and deeds. The book explores both essence (Joan of Arc as embodying “sublime sanctity”) and context to explain how the heroine’s image morphed to reflect changes in the political and social status of women in 18th and 19th century European society. In Tchaikovsky’s opera on the subject, which Pendergast greatly illuminates, Joan of Arc becomes the ideal image of the liberated Russian woman at the expense of the superfluous man. A book of rich ideas, richly presented.” (Simon Morrison, Professor of Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University)
“Joan of Arc on the Stage is a model of how philological rigour and critical imagination can shed new light not just on Schiller’s play, but on its sources and adaptations. Traversing an impressive range of languages, its amplifies our understanding of European drama, makes a compelling case for the centrality of Russia to the burgeoning field of world literature, and lays the foundations for a long overdue reassessment of Tchaikovsky’s opera, The Maid of Orleans.” (Philip Ross Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music, University of Oxford)
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Book Title: Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity
Authors: John Pendergast
Series Title: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27889-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27888-5Published: 19 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27891-5Published: 19 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27889-2Published: 08 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2634-582X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theatre History, Drama, European Literature