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Table of Contents Act V, Scene IV Summary While Joan is condemned to the stake, a Shepherd claiming to be her father comes to see her. She repulses him, and he leaves cursing her. She pleads for her life, claiming that she is pregnant. But it is to no avail and York and Warwick send her to the stake. Winchester arrives to confer with York about the proposed peace plan between the two nations. A peace is established on the terms that the Dauphin would rule in France but as a viceroy of the English King. Notes In the previous scene, Joan has already been exposed as a witch. In this scene the claim of the shepherd underscores the baseness of her origins with his unvarnished testimony that "She was the first fruit of my bachelorship." Finally, the reiterated innuendo of sexual misconduct is made utterly explicit in her confession that Charles (or Alecon or Reignier) has left her with a child, whom the English will not allow to be born. Table of Contents | |
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