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Saint Joan: A Chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue /
This book presents the script of the 1924 drama, which chronicles the trial, burning at the stake, and canonization of the fifteenth-century warrior and martyr, Joan of Arc.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Books,
1957.
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Table of Contents:
- Joan the original and presumptuous-- Joan and Socrates-- Contrast with Napoleon-- Was Joan innocent or guilty-- John's good looks-- Joan's social position-- Joan's voices and visions-- The evolutionary appetite-- The mere iconography does not matter-- The modern education which Joan escaped-- Failures of the voices-- Joan a Galtonic visualizer-- Joan's manliness and militarism-- Was john suicidal-- Joan summed up-- Joan's immaturity and ignorance-- The maid in literature-- protestant misunderstanding of the middle ages-- comparative fairness of the John's trial--John not tried as a political offender-- The church uncompromised by its Amends-- Cruelty, modern and medieval-- Catholic anti Clericalism-- Catholicism not yet catholic enough-- The law of change is the law of god-- Credulity, modern and medieval-- Toleration, modern and medieval-- Variability of Toleration-- The conflict between genius and discipline-- Joan as Theocrat-- Unbroken success essential in Theocracy-- Modern distortions of John's history-- History always out of date-- The real Joan not marvellous enough for us
- The stage limits of historical representation-- Avoid in the Elizabethan drama-- tragedy not melodrama-- The inevitable flatteries of tragedy-- Some well meant proposals for the improvement of the play-- The epilogue-- To the critics, lest they should feel ignored--