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Saint Joan

Saint Joanstands out amongGeorge Bernard Shaw’splays. He’s best known for drawing-room plays exploring social issues; here he writes something closer to a Shakespearean history play, following the fifteenth-century French national hero Joan of Arc through her campaigns and beyond. Shaw’s preface to the play argues that other tellings of Joan’s story do her a disservice by idealizing her and demonizing her antagonists. By refusing to show the prosecutors at Joan’s trial...

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CHAPTERS

Preface

Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412; burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431; rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456; designated Venerable in 1904; declared Bless...

Saint Joan

CHAPTERS

Preface

Preface Joan The Original And Presumptuous

Preface Joan And Socrates

Preface Contrast With Napoleon

Preface Was Joan Innocent Or Guilty

Preface Joans Good Looks

Preface Joans Social Position

Preface Joans Voices And Visions

Preface The Evolutionary Appetite

Preface The Mere Iconography Does Not Matter

Preface The Modern Education Which Joan Escaped

Preface Failures Of The Voice

Preface Joan A Galtonic Visualizer

Preface Joans Manliness And Militarism

Preface Was Joan Suicidal

Preface Joan Summed Up

Preface Joans Immaturity And Ignorance

Preface The Maid In Literature

Preface Protestant Misunderstandings Of The Middle Ages

Preface Comparative Fairness Of Joans Trial

Preface Joan Not Tried As A Political Offender

Preface The Church Uncompromised By Its Amends

Preface Cruelty Modern And Medieval

Preface Catholic Anti Clericalism

Preface Catholicism Not Yet Catholic Enough

Preface The Law Of Change Is The Law Of God

Preface Credulity Modern And Medieval

Preface Toleration Modern And Medieval

Preface Variability Of Toleration

Preface The Conflict Between Genius And Disciplin

Preface Joan As Theocrat

Preface Unbroken Success Essential In Theocracy

Preface Modern Distortions Of Joans History

Preface History Always Out Of Date

Preface The Real Joan Not Marvellous Enough For Us

Preface The Stage Limits Of Historical Representation

Preface A Void In The Elizabethan Drama

Preface Tragedy Not Melodrama

Preface The Inevitable Flatteries Of Tragedy

Preface Some Well Meant Proposals For The Improvement Of The Play

Preface The Epilogue

Preface To The Critics Lest They Should Feel Ignored

Dramatis Personae

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Scene 5

Scene 6

Epilogue

Saint Joan

CHAPTERS

Preface

Preface Joan The Original And Presumptuous

Preface Joan And Socrates

Preface Contrast With Napoleon

Preface Was Joan Innocent Or Guilty

Preface Joans Good Looks

Preface Joans Social Position

Preface Joans Voices And Visions

Preface The Evolutionary Appetite

Preface The Mere Iconography Does Not Matter

Preface The Modern Education Which Joan Escaped

Preface Failures Of The Voice

Preface Joan A Galtonic Visualizer

Preface Joans Manliness And Militarism

Preface Was Joan Suicidal

Preface Joan Summed Up

Preface Joans Immaturity And Ignorance

Preface The Maid In Literature

Preface Protestant Misunderstandings Of The Middle Ages

Preface Comparative Fairness Of Joans Trial

Preface Joan Not Tried As A Political Offender

Preface The Church Uncompromised By Its Amends

Preface Cruelty Modern And Medieval

Preface Catholic Anti Clericalism

Preface Catholicism Not Yet Catholic Enough

Preface The Law Of Change Is The Law Of God