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Sisters In Sublime Sanctity: Schiller's Jungfrau, Euripides's Iphigenia Plays, And Joan Of Arc On The Stage, John Martin Pendergast
Sisters In Sublime Sanctity: Schiller's Jungfrau, Euripides's Iphigenia Plays, And Joan Of Arc On The Stage, John Martin Pendergast
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At the dawn of the nineteenth century, Friedrich Schiller reinvented the image of Joan of Arc in his play, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, with consequences that affected theatrical representations of Joan for the rest of that century and well into the twentieth. Regarding representations of Joan of Arc to be found in Shakespeare or Voltaire as unworthy of her nobility, Schiller set out to create a more powerful character who suffers at the hands of fate but changes history by sheer force of will. He took as his allegorical model the characterization of Iphigenia made famous by Euripides in …