A masterpiece by one of the world’s greatest playwrights, Saint Joan is a spellbinding portrayal of Joan of Arc’s rise to glory and her subsequent martyrdom. A lover of God, a hearer of voices and a fighter for the French, Joan of Arc was adored by her followers as a saint, prophet and military idol. Since its debut in 1923, the play -- a rare dramatic gem in Shaw’s generally comic oeuvre -- is seen as one of his greatest and most important works. George Bernard Shaw received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 “for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.”