Saint Joan
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All Themes Institutions and the Corruption of Integrity Gender Sanity vs. Madness The Quest for Personal Knowledge
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All Characters Joan (“The Maid”) Robert de Baudricourt Bertrand de Poulengey The Archbishop of Rheims (Regnault de Chartres) The Dauphin (King Charles VII) Jean, Comte de Dunois, Bastard of Orleans Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick John Bowyer Spenser Neville de Stogumber (Warwick’s Chaplain) Peter (Píerre) Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais Brother John Lemaître (The Inquisitor) John d’Estivet, Canon of Bayeux Thomas de Courcelles, Canon of Paris Brother Martin Ladvenu The Executioner English Soldier
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Saint Joan

by

George Bernard Shaw
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