Faustian Illeism

[Jonathan Lighter]

Dr. Faustus and St. Joan of Arc didn't have a lot in common, but Joan too does the illeism thing in _1 Henry VI_, I, vi, ll.2-3:

  Rescued is Orleans from the English.
  Thus Joan la Pucelle hath performed her word.

  And at III, iii, l.17:

  Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise.

  JL




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