“Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?”

— George Bernard Shaw , Saint Joan

Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s

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Irish playwright 1856–1950

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