SYNOPSIS: 

Saint Joan is a play by G. Bernard Shaw that he wrote shortly after the Roman Catholic Church canonized Joan of Arc. It is a dramatization based on the records of her trial that was first produced in 1923.

It begins with her first approaching a lowly soldier about the voices she hears. She then visits to the Dauphin to persuade him that she will help him become a true king by rallying the troops to drive out the English occupiers and restore France. Joan succeeds in all this through her excellent powers of negotiation. After she does this, she is betrayed and captured at the siege of Compiègne. After her trial the play draws to a close with a dream sequence in which Joan visits the king along with other characters from the play and a man from the future who tells of Joan's canonization.

PLAYWRIGHT: 

G. Bernard Shaw (he apparently hated the "George" and never used it, either personally or professionally) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.