Shaw,George Barnard

Saint Joan/ - U.P.: Maple Press, - 222p. 18cm

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

Evolutionary appetite

Mere iconography does not matter

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

Maid in literature

Protestant misunderstandings of the Middle Ages

Comparative fairness of Joan's trial

Joan not tried as a political offender

Church uncompromised by its amends

Cruelty, modern and medieval

Catholic anti-clericalism

Catholicism not yet Catholic enough

Law of change is the law of God

Credulity, modern and medieval

Toleration, modern and medieval

Variability of toleration

Conflict between genius and discipline

Joan as theocrat

Unbroken success essential in theocracy

Modern distortions of Joan's history

History always out of date

Real Joan not marvellous enough for us

Stage limits of historical representation

Void in the Elizabethan drama

Tragedy, not melodrama

Inevitable flatteries of tragedy

Some well-meant proposals for the improvement of the play

Epilogue

To the critics, lest they should feel ignored.

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Christian women saints

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