George Bernard Shaw called it ‘a chronicle play’, I suppose a sort of docudrama if a superior one. Saint Joan premiered in New York in 1923 just three years after her canonisation, a surprisingly long time after the actual events in 15th century France. Joan (1412-1431) had long occupied a place in popular imagination and culture.
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