圣女贞德

看卫报读书访谈，Clive James 提到萧伯纳剧作《圣女贞德》的序

The book that changed my mind

George Bernard Shaw, his preface to Saint Joan. Reading that wonderful stretch of prose started me on the road to a more human version of Christianity: a road I like to think that I am still pursuing.

搜到一个台湾连若安译注版，说 译本都没有翻译不长的序言，又说可以先看正文再看作者“长篇大论的自序"

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shaw/george_bernard/saint-joan/preface.html

She lectured, talked down, and overruled statesmen and prelates. She pooh-poohed the plans of generals, leading their troops to victory on plans of her own. She had an unbounded and quite unconcealed contempt for official opinion, judgment, and authority, and for War Office tactics and strategy. Had she been a sage and monarch in whom the most venerable hierarchy and the most illustrious dynasty converged, her pretensions and proceedings would have been as trying to the official mind as the pretensions of Caesar were to Cassius.

她教训政治家、教长，驳倒他们的意见，推翻他们的决策。她轻视将军的兵法，用自己的战术，领他们的军队克敌制胜。她对官僚的意见、判断、权威，对军政部的将略，一点也看不上眼，而且公然不讳地藐视。她就像狂妄的凯撒之于卡西乌，就算身为圣哲、君主，把无上尊崇的体制和极其显赫的王朝集于一身，她的狂妄和所作所为，官僚的头脑还是难以禁受。