The famous playwright and novelist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925 “for a work marked by idealism and humanism, for sparkling satire, which is often combined with exceptional poetic beauty.” The volume of “Selected Works” includes the plays “Pygmalion” (1912), “Saint Joan” (1923), the most famous short stories, as well as the best novel “The Career of a Fighter” (1885).* * *Great world upheavals brought to life Shaw’s play “Saint Joan” written in 1923. It was created shortly after the appearance of the pentalogy “Back to Methuselah” and, as often happened with Shaw, in many ways refuted his previous drama. Born under the sign of the greatest events of history, it absorbed the revolutionary atmosphere of the era. Shaw summarized in it not only the historical experience of modern humanity, but also his own rich creative experience. The best of the playwright’s plays, “Saint Joan” was an artistic synthesis of his ideological and creative quests. At the same time, another “paradox” occurred with Shaw - the pinnacle of his comedy theater turned out to be a high heroic tragedy. This had its own logic.