"Joan of Arc was not stuck at the cross-roads, either by rejecting all the paths like Tolstoy, or by accepting them all like Nietzsche. She chose a path, and went down it like a thunderbolt. Yet Joan, when I came to think of her, had in her all that was true either in Tolstoy ...
See her autobiography (1997) and J. Sutherland and R. Bonynge,The Joan Sutherland Album(1986); biographies by R. R. Braddon (1962), E. Greenfield (1973), B. Adams (1980), and N. Major (1987, repr. 1994); Q. Eaton,Sutherland and Bonynge: An Intimate Biography(1987); M. Oxenbould...
not merely from the point of view of chronology. The modern approach to historical drama can be seen to start with him. The immense influence he exerted in his own time and continues to exert among English playwrights of this century is reflected in the fact that nearly...