a hegelian reading of saint joan, a historical drama by g.b. shaw: the effects of dialectical approach in a historical reproduction

among british playwrights , george bernard shaw is a dramatist who envisages the hermeneutics o f history with a m ore challenging perspective w hich approximates him to a modern o utlook. i n this regard, he manages to attune his philosophy of history ( best exposed in a 1923 p lay by t he name of s aint joan ) with the idea of f . w . hegel, t he nineteenth - c entury german th inker , and his unique approach to the speculations on the philosophy o f history . the attempt of the present study is t o read saint joan through the looking glass of hegel’s two eminent works , the philosophy of right and philosophy o f history and if possible , to excruciate t he assimilations between t he t wo thinkers a nd their involvement in the notion of history .