But it is an interesting question to ask, and one way to ask that question is to write a play in which she’s imagined as non-binary.
Did she see herself as wholly female or wholly male, or some mixture of both? Was her crossdressing a way to assert her not-exactly-female self, or merely a convenience for someone wearing armor and going into battle? We don’t know we can’t know. As she saw it, God had told her to cut off her hair and don men’s clothing, and she was simply obeying his orders.īut that’s not the end of the issue. And even if she had been genderqueer in all but the name, she would have understood herself in a different way than contemporary genderqueer folks do. No, Joan of Arc was not “nonbinary” in a contemporary sense, because that concept didn’t exist in her time. The Globe theater is asking a much more realistic “what if” question than many history-inspired works of fiction, looking at a famous female crossdresser - who was literally burnt at the stake for refusing to dress in women’s clothes - and asking to what degree we can see her as queer.
#JEANNE D ARC FATE MOVIE#
And sometimes playwrights (and screenwriters, and novelists) like to deliberately play around with the historical facts - to play a game of “what if?”ĭid anyone else enjoy the movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? I did, even though as a trained historian I am aware that Lincoln did not, in fact, hunt vampires. Even the most realistic plays involving historical figures have to stuff the unruly facts into a dramatic structure. Every play based on a historical figure is fictionalized to some extent, because that’s how plays (and movies. (Whatever that means.)īut what exactly is the problem with a play positing a genderqueer Joan? “Joan of Arc has been cancelled,” proclaimed Paul Joseph Watson on Infowars. … Shakespeare’s Globe perverted a Catholic saint and molded her into a woke monstrosity. New woke piece of garbage play … which views the warrior saint through the funhouse perspective of modern gender silliness. Joan of Arc has been rewritten into a transgender icon, according to wokester elites in the arts, who’ve decided to culturally expropriate the Catholic saint and national patroness of France for the god of transgenderism … Instead of being the Maid of Orleans, the Liberator of France, and a great symbol of feminine chastity, beauty, innocence and courage, she’s now some creature whose bravery consists of contemplating her genitals and displaying her wokeness in the trendy new definition of heroism. “Is nothing sacred to the left?” she wrote. In the right-wing American Thinker blog, meanwhile, Monica Showalter declared the as yet unseen play to be “repugnant.” But then again, shoe-horning "non-binary" characters into historical stories will always be clumsy and stupid because "non-binary" didn't exist until 14 seconds ago. The fact that Joan of Arc was an actual woman is the whole point and what makes her story heroic and significant.
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