The Story of Shaw's Saint Joan

by Brian Tyson

The literary genetics of Shaw's most famous play are here examined for the first time. The sources of Saint Joan are closely compared with the original shorthand manuscript and that is compared with its subsequent revisions. This evidence is supplemented by facts drawn from Shaw's correspondence in print, in the British Library, and in private collections, and by accounts both in print and in the correspondence of people who knew Shaw at the time...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773503781
• ISBN13: 9780773503786
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"