Original sentence: Iconoclastic author George Bernard Shaw, in the preface to his play Saint Joan, accuses Twain of being "infatuated" with Joan of Arc.Recent scholarship of the trial transcripts has suggested that Twain's belief may  have been closer to the truth than Shaw was willing to accept.Shaw says that Twain "romanticizes" the story of Joan, reproducing the legend that the English conducted a trial deliberately rigged to find Joan guilty of witchcraft and heresy
Edited sentence: (Twain was not the only one who accepted the "legend", however.) Perhaps Mr.A similar outlook on the trial was found in Joan of Arc, which was written by Maxwell Anderson and Andrew Solt.Iconoclastic author George Bernard Shaw, in his preface to his own play Saint Joan, accuses Twain of being "infatuated" with Joan of Arc, so much so that he "romanticizes" the story of Joan into the so-called "legend" that has been handed down to generations, in which the English conducted a trial which was deliberately rigged to find Joan guilty of witchcraft and heresy.In recent years, with the trial transcripts readily available, it has been strongly suggested that Twain's belief may, indeed, have been closer to the truth than Shaw was willing to accept.Samuel Clemens learned what many before and since have always known; namely, that an author, no matter how well known and regarded, who attempts to step out of his established genre, may have a difficult time in being accepted in the new genre