中學時，1960年代中，讀過George Bernard Shaw GBS 的幾個劇本和傳記，
As a convent student Emma mistakes her “ardent veneration for illustrious or ill-fated women” like Joan of Arc for a religious vocation, dreaming of voluptuous sacrifices perfumed by incense.
蕭伯納此書有漢譯。花很多篇幅談論史實/史觀。聖女貞德。
"蕭伯納——不快意的戲劇 金本基譯"未讀。以後對"賣花女"一劇精讀.....
As a convent student Emma mistakes her “ardent veneration for illustrious or ill-fated women” like Joan of Arc for a religious vocation, dreaming of voluptuous sacrifices perfumed by incense.
蕭伯納此書有漢譯。花很多篇幅談論史實/史觀。聖女貞德。
- First performance: December 28, 1923
Joan of Arc was canonised #onthisday in 1920. Here’s a 19th-century portrait of the French heroine http://ow.ly/MW45H
