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Saint Joan of Arc
Author:
George Bernard ShawAlternative names:
Saint Joan of ArcStatus:
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Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial. Shaw studied the transcripts and decided that the concerned people acted in good faith according to their beliefs. He wrote in his preface to the play
Chapter List
- Chapter 1 JOAN THE ORIGINAL AND PRESUMPTUOUS
- Chapter 2 JOAN AND SOCRATES
- Chapter 3 CONTRAST WITH NAPOLEON
- Chapter 4 WAS JOAN INNOCENT OR GUILTY
- Chapter 5 JOAN'S GOOD LOOKS
- Chapter 6 JOAN'S SOCIAL POSITION
- Chapter 7 JOAN'S VOICES AND VISIONS
- Chapter 8 THE EVOLUTIONARY APPETITE
- Chapter 9 THE MERE ICONOGRAPHY DOES NOT MATTER
- Chapter 10 THE MODERN EDUCATION WHICH JOAN ESCAPED
- Chapter 11 FAILURES OF THE VOICES
- Chapter 12 JOAN A GALTONIC VISUALIZER
- Chapter 13 JOAN'S MANLINESS AND MILITARISM
- Chapter 14 WAS JOAN SUICIDAL
- Chapter 15 JOAN SUMMED UP
- Chapter 16 JOAN'S IMMATURITY AND IGNORANCE
- Chapter 17 THE MAID IN LITERATURE
- Chapter 18 PROTESTANT MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
- Chapter 19 COMPARATIVE FAIRNESS OF JOAN'S TRIAL
- Chapter 20 JOAN NOT TRIED AS A POLITICAL OFFENDER
- Chapter 21 THE CHURCH UNCOMPROMISED BY ITS AMENDS
- Chapter 22 CRUELTY, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
- Chapter 23 CATHOLIC ANTI-CLERICALISM
- Chapter 24 CATHOLICISM NOT YET CATHOLIC ENOUGH
- Chapter 25 THE LAW OF CHANGE IS THE LAW OF GOD
- Chapter 26 CREDULITY, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
- Chapter 27 TOLERATION, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
- Chapter 28 VARIABILITY OP TOLERATION
- Chapter 29 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GENIUS AND DISCIPLINE
- Chapter 30 JOAN AS THEOCRA
- Chapter 31 UNBROKEN SUCCESS ESSENTIAL IN THEOCRACY
- Chapter 32 MODERN DISTORTIONS OF JOAN'S HISTORY
- Chapter 33 HISTORY ALWAYS OUT OF DATE
- Chapter 34 THE REAL JOAN NOT MARVELLOUS ENOUGH FOR US
- Chapter 35 THE STAGE LIMITS OF HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION
- Chapter 36 A VOID IN THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
- Chapter 37 TRAGEDY, NOT MELODRAMA
- Chapter 38 THE INEVITABLE FLATTERIES OF TRAGEDY
- Chapter 39 SOME WELL-MEANT PROPOSALS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PLAY
- Chapter 40 THE EPILOGUE
- Chapter 41 TO THE CRITICS, LEST THEY SHOULD FEEL IGNORED
- Chapter 42 AYOT ST LAWRENCE
- Chapter 43 SCENE II
- Chapter 44 SCENE III
- Chapter 45 SCENE IV
- Chapter 46 SCENE V
- Chapter 47 SCENE VI
- Chapter 48 EPILOGUE
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