# Warwick — Saint Joan character guide

> Warwick in Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Warwick Glasdale, Warwick Reassured, Warwick Really, Warwick Rising, Warwick Ah, Warwick Gently, Warwick Hallo, Warwick Quick, Warwick Hush, Warwick Kneeling, The Earl of Warwick

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

## Snapshot

The English Earl who sees Joan not as a heretic but as a rival power, and moves to destroy her with feudal logic rather than theology.

## Who they are

Warwick is a feudal magnate who understands that Joan's nationalism threatens the whole aristocratic order of ransom, chivalry, and negotiated war. He pursues her destruction with the calm of a man doing necessary political work, not the zeal of a fanatic. His alliance with the Church against her shows how secular and religious power converge when a peasant girl starts winning.

## Relationships

### [Joan of Arc](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/saint_joan_se/characters/joan_of_arc)

_rivalry_

Warwick, the English nobleman, sees Joan as a political threat and orchestrates her capture and execution.

### [Peter Cauchon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/saint_joan_se/characters/peter_cauchon)

_professional_

Cauchon and Warwick collaborate politically to ensure Joan's condemnation, though Cauchon claims ecclesiastical motives.

## In the story

### [Preface to Saint Joan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/saint_joan_se/chapters/preface-to-saint-joan)

English commander involved in Joan's capture and trial; Shaw highlights the political motivations behind her execution.

### [Failures of the Voices](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/saint_joan_se/chapters/failures-of-the-voices)

Warwick's men at arms are mentioned as the force La Hire might have charged.

### [A Void in the Elizabethan Drama](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/saint_joan_se/chapters/a-void-in-the-elizabethan-drama)

Mentioned as a figure who would lose his feudal quality in Shakespeare's portrayal.

### [The Inevitable Flatteries of Tragedy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/saint_joan_se/chapters/the-inevitable-flatteries-of-tragedy)

Shaw explains that Warwick is endowed with enough consciousness to explain the feudal system to a modern audience.

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