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Saint Joan »
Authors: George Bernard Shaw
ISBN-13: 9780713679960, ISBN-10: 0713679964
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: September 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: George Bernard Shaw
The Editor, Jean Chothia, is a Fellow of Selwyn College and Reader in Drama and Theatre in the University of Cambridge. Her books include Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene O'Neill; English Drama of the Early Modern Period, 1890-1940, and, as editor, 'The New Woman' and Other Emancipated Woman Plays.
Book Synopsis
The New Mermaids series is first choice for univeristy courses.
Table of Contents
| 'On Playing Joan' | vii | |
| Introduction | xi | |
| Preface | ||
| Joan the Original and Presumptuous | 7 | |
| Joan and Socrates | 8 | |
| Contrast with Napoleon | 8 | |
| Was Joan Innocent or Guilty? | 9 | |
| Joan's Good Looks | 11 | |
| Joan's Social Position | 12 | |
| Joan's Voices and Visions | 13 | |
| The Evolutionary Appetite | 14 | |
| The Mere Iconography does not Matter | 16 | |
| The Modern Education which Joan Escaped | 16 | |
| Failures of the voices | 18 | |
| Joan a Galtonic Visualizer | 18 | |
| Joan's Manliness and Militarism | 19 | |
| Was Joan Suicidal? | 20 | |
| Joan Summed Up | 21 | |
| Joan's Immaturity and Ignorance | 22 | |
| The Maid in Literature | 22 | |
| Protestant Misunderstandings of the Middle Ages | 25 | |
| Comparative Fairness of Joan's Trial | 26 | |
| Joan not tried as a Political Offender | 27 | |
| The Church Uncompromised by its Amends | 29 | |
| Cruelty, Modern and Medieval | 30 | |
| Catholic Anti-Clericalism | 31 | |
| Catholicism not yet Catholic Enough | 32 | |
| The Law of Change is the Law of God | 33 | |
| Credulity, Modern and Medieval | 34 | |
| Toleration, Modern and Medieval | 35 | |
| Variability of Toleration | 36 | |
| The Conflict between Genius and Discipline | 37 | |
| Joan as Theocrat | 38 | |
| Unbroken Success essential in Theocracy | 39 | |
| Modern Distortions of Joan's History | 39 | |
| History always Out of Date | 40 | |
| The Real Joan not Marvellous Enough for Us | 40 | |
| The Stage Limits of Historical Representation | 41 | |
| A Void in the Elizabethan Drama | 42 | |
| Tragedy, not Melodrama | 43 | |
| The Inevitable Flatteries of Tragedy | 43 | |
| Some Well-meant Proposals for the Improvement of the Play | 44 | |
| The Epilogue | 45 | |
| To the Critics, lest they should feel Ignored | 45 | |
| Saint Joan | 49 | |
| Principal Works of Bernard Shaw | 162 |
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