Saint Joan
by Bernard Shaw
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About this eBook
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
- Title
- Saint Joan : A chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue
- Original Publication
- New York: Brentano's, 1924.
- Credits
- The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Christian women saints -- Drama
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 76323
- Release Date
- June 16, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SAINT JOAN
- 2.PREFACE TO SAINT JOAN — Joan the Original and Presumptuous. — Joan and Socrates. — Contrast with Napoleon. — Was Joan Innocent or Guilty? — Joan’s Good Looks. — Joan’s Social Position. — Joan’s Voices and Visions. — The Evolutionary Appetite. — The mere Iconography does not matter. — The Modern Education which Joan escaped. — Failures of the Voices. — Joan a Galtonic Visualizer. — Joan’s Manliness and Militarism. — Was Joan Suicidal. — Joan Summed Up. — Joan’s Immaturity and Ignorance. — The Maid in Literature. — Protestant Misunderstandings of the Middle Ages. — Comparative Fairness of Joan’s Trial. — Joan not tried as a Political Offender. — The Church uncompromised by its Amends. — Cruelty, Modern and Medieval. — Catholic Anti-Clericalism. — Catholicism not yet Catholic Enough. — The Law of Change is the Law of God. — Credulity, Modern and Medieval. — Toleration, Modern and Medieval. — Variability of Toleration. — The Conflict between Genius and Discipline. — Joan as Theocrat. — Unbroken Success essential in Theocracy. — Modern Distortions of Joan’s History. — History always out of Date. — The Real Joan not Marvellous Enough for Us. — The Stage Limits of Historical Representation. — A Void in the Elizabethan Drama. — Tragedy not Melodrama. — The Inevitable Flatteries of Tragedy. — Some well-meant Proposals for the Improvement of the Play. — The Epilogue. — To the Critics, lest they should feel Ignored.
- 3.CONTENTS — SCENE I — SCENE II — SCENE III — SCENE IV — SCENE V — SCENE VI — EPILOGUE
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