Saint Joan (play)

Saint Joan is a 1923 play by George Bernard Shaw that he wrote shortly after the Roman Catholic Church canonized Joan of Arc. It is a dramatization based on the records of her trial made public by the Church in the 1920s that was first produced in 1923.

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1923 - George Bernard Shaw - Roman Catholic Church - Canonized - Joan of Arc - 1920s

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Although Shaw had a much larger body of work, this play is often credited with his receiving the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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1925 - Nobel Prize for Literature

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