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Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick
De Stogumber is Warwick’s Chaplain. He is not horribly bright, so most of Cauchon and Warwick’s nuanced condemnations of Joan go over his head. For much of the play, the Chaplain possesses a deep hatred for Joan. Unlike Cauchon, he has little interest in giving Joan a partial, nuanced trial. To the Chaplain, Joan is merely a witch who must be killed. Ultimately, however, Joan’s execution has a profound effect on the Chaplain. In the Epilogue, he reveals that he became “a different man” after Joan’s death in an attempt to repent for the cruelty he inflicted upon her.
John Bowyer Spenser Neville de Stogumber (Warwick’s Chaplain) Quotes in Saint Joan
The Saint Joan quotes below are all either spoken by John Bowyer Spenser Neville de Stogumber (Warwick’s Chaplain) or refer to John Bowyer Spenser Neville de Stogumber (Warwick’s Chaplain). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Scene 4 Quotes
“Men cannot serve two masters. If this cant of serving their country once takes hold of them, goodbye to the authority of their feudal lords, and goodbye to the authority of the Church. That is, goodbye to you and me.”
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“When he strikes, he strikes at the Catholic Church, whose realm is the whole spiritual world. When he damns, he damns the souls of the entire human race. Against that dreadful design The Church stands ever on guard. And it is as one of the instruments of that design that I see this girl. She is inspired, but diabolically inspired.”
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“You great lords are too prone to treat The Church as a mere political convenience.”
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“She acts as if she herself were The Church. She brings the message of God to Charles; and The Church must stand aside. She will crown him in the cathedral of Rheims: she, not The Church! She sends letters to the king of England giving him God’s command through her to return to his island on pain of God’s vengeance, which she will execute. […] Has she ever in all her utterances said one word of The Church? Never. It is always God and herself.”
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“My lord: we shall not defeat The Maid if we strive against one another. […] The devil divides us and governs. I see you are no friend to The Church: you are an earl first and last, as I am a churchman first and last. But can we not sink our differences in the face of a common enemy?”
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John Bowyer Spenser Neville de Stogumber (Warwick’s Chaplain) Character Timeline in Saint Joan
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Scene 4
An English Chaplain and a nobleman sit at a table in a tent at an English camp. The...
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...more concerned with the Bastard of Orleans (Dunois), as he is a renowned commander. The Chaplain counters that Dunois is “only a Frenchman,” which upsets the nobleman, who believes this nationalist...
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...The nobleman introduces himself to Cauchon as Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and his Chaplain as Master John de Stogumber. The men sit around the table and discuss their shared...
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...should attribute the French victory more to Dunois’s military prowess than to Joan’s supposed sorcery. Stogumber is convinced of Joan’s sorcery, however; he recounts hearing that Joan was pierced through the...
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...political convenience.” Cauchon insists that he is no political bishop: his priority is Joan’s soul. Stogumber accuses Cauchon of being a traitor and valuing the interests of the Church over those...
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Stogumber interrupts to question how Joan can be accused of heresy when she prays nonstop. With...
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...pledge allegiance to their regions over allegiance to the Church. Cauchon deems nationalism “anti-Church.” The Chaplain, whose simplicity renders him unable to follow Warwick and Cauchon’s dialogue, nevertheless cries out for...
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...seal her fate: everything she says further convinces her interrogators of her heresy. Warwick leaves. Chaplain de Stogumber and Canon de Courcelles enter the courtroom. They are both agitated, having just...
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...stake. Cauchon reads Joan’s sentence, excommunicates her, and passes her over to the secular arm. Chaplain de Stogumber gleefully helps the soldiers bring Joan to the stake.
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...because she didn’t sufficiently understand the accusations against her. Warwick enters, followed shortly thereafter by Chaplain de Stogumber, who is sobbing. The Chaplain explains that he watched an English soldier give...
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...and he admits, wryly, that he hopes it was English laughter. His shame reignited, the Chaplain runs away in disgrace.
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Epilogue
The door opens and an old man enters: he reveals that he is Chaplain de Stogumber. Stogumber expresses remorse for the cruelty he inflicted upon Joan, though in his...
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The Executioner appears, announcing that Joan’s strength of spirit makes her “more alive” than Stogumber. Warwick enters next and congratulates Joan on her cleared name. He apologizes, maintaining that her...
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