Saint Joan A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue

by Shaw, George Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780140450231
• ISBN10: 0140450238
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-01-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

Dramatizes the trial, career, and execution of Joan of Arc

Table of Contents

'On Playing Joan'	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Preface
Joan the Original and Presumptuous	p. 7
Joan and Socrates	p. 8
Contrast with Napoleon	p. 8
Was Joan Innocent or Guilty?	p. 9
Joan's Good Looks	p. 11
Joan's Social Position	p. 12
Joan's Voices and Visions	p. 13
The Evolutionary Appetite	p. 14
The Mere Iconography does not Matter	p. 16
The Modern Education which Joan Escaped	p. 16
Failures of the voices	p. 18
Joan a Galtonic Visualizer	p. 18
Joan's Manliness and Militarism	p. 19
Was Joan Suicidal?	p. 20
Joan Summed Up	p. 21
Joan's Immaturity and Ignorance	p. 22
The Maid in Literature	p. 22
Protestant Misunderstandings of the Middle Ages	p. 25
Comparative Fairness of Joan's Trial	p. 26
Joan not tried as a Political Offender	p. 27
The Church Uncompromised by its Amends	p. 29
Cruelty, Modern and Medieval	p. 30
Catholic Anti-Clericalism	p. 31
Catholicism not yet Catholic Enough	p. 32
The Law of Change is the Law of God	p. 33
Credulity, Modern and Medieval	p. 34
Toleration, Modern and Medieval	p. 35
Variability of Toleration	p. 36
The Conflict between Genius and Discipline	p. 37
Joan as Theocrat	p. 38
Unbroken Success essential in Theocracy	p. 39
Modern Distortions of Joan's History	p. 39
History always Out of Date	p. 40
The Real Joan not Marvellous Enough for Us	p. 40
The Stage Limits of Historical Representation	p. 41
A Void in the Elizabethan Drama	p. 42
Tragedy, not Meldorama	p. 43
The Inevitable Flatteries of Tragedy	p. 43
Some Well-meant Proposals for the Improvement of the Play	p. 44
The Epilogue	p. 45
To the Critics, lest they should feel Ignored	p. 45
Saint Joan	p. 49
Principal Works of Bernard Shaw	p. 162
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