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Works of G. B. Shaw: The Maid In Literature

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shaw, George Bernard

Shaw, George Bernard
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Maid In Literature:

Joan's legend has been dealt with by numerous important writers. These
treatments have usually been either scurrilous attacks or over-romantic
tributes. Among the attackers have been Shakespeare in the first part of King
Henry VI, Voltaire in La Pucelle, and Anatole France in his biography of Joan.
Those who wrote adoring romantic tributes to Joan have included Schiller,
Andrew Lang, and Mark Twain.

Comment:

Shaw includes a number of literary references here in an extremely
compressed form. Below they are identified.

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