Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity

John Pendergast (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XVII, 281 Seiten

2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-27888-5 (ISBN)

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This 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, Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans). 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 La pucelle d'Orléans and Shakespeare's Henry VI, part I - utterly dissatisfying, Schiller set out to replace them. Die Jungfrau von Orleans was a smashing success and inspired various subsequent treatments, including Verdi's opera Giovanna d'Arco and a translation by the father of Russian Romanticism, Vasily Zhukovsky, on which Tchaikovsky based his opera Orleanskaya deva (The Maid of Orleans). In turn, the book's final chapter examines Shaw's Saint Joan and finds that the Irish playwright's vociferous complaints about Schiller's "romantic flapdoodle" belie a surprising affinity for Schiller's approach.

John Pendergast is an Assistant Professor of Russian at West Point. He holds doctoral and master's degrees in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York, a master's degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Arizona, and a bachelor's degree in Music from Birmingham-Southern College. A graduate of the Russian program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, his research focuses on music and letters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia and Germany.

Chapter 1. The Palimpsest of Euripides, Shakespeare, and Voltaire.- Chapter 2. Sublime Sanctity: Schiller's New Tragic Joan.- Chapter 3. Lacuna and Enigma: Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco in Light of Schiller's Play.- Chapter 4. Patriotic Elegy and Epic Illusion: Schiller's Johanna in Russia.- Chapter 5. The Skeptic Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks: Shaw's Saint Joan. Concluding Thoughts on Joan in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 281 p. 20 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	519 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Bernard Shaw • euripedes • Joan of Arc • Saint Joan • Schiller • Shakespeare • tchaikovsky • Vasily Zhukovsky • Verdi • Voltaire
ISBN-10	3-030-27888-3 / 3030278883
ISBN-13	978-3-030-27888-5 / 9783030278885
Zustand	Neuware