# John de Stogumber — Saint Joan character guide

> John de Stogumber in Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Cauchon Messire John de Stogumber, Messire John, Messire, Messire John de Stogumber, Messire de Stogumber, Master John de Stogumber, Master de Stogumber, Master John, de Stogumber, De Stogumber, De Stogumber Kneeling

**First appearance:** 0046-scene-iv

## Snapshot

A blustering English chaplain whose patriotic hatred of the French hardens into a personal crusade to see Joan dead.

## Who they are

Stogumber represents the English faction at Joan's trial, and he wears his nationalism as loudly as his cassock. He is certain that Joan is a witch and a rebel, and his certainty grows crueler the more she refuses to be frightened. His rage matters because it shows how ordinary, sincere hatred — not just political calculation — fuels the machinery that destroys her.

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