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100 _aShaw,George Barnard
245 0 _aSaint Joan/
260 _aU.P.:
_bMaple Press,
300 _a222p.
_c18cm
505 _aJoan 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discipline Joan as theocrat Unbroken success essential in theocracy Modern distortions of Joan's history History always out of date Real Joan not marvellous enough for us Stage limits of historical representation Void in the Elizabethan drama Tragedy, not melodrama Inevitable flatteries of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.
650 _aChristian women saints
942 _cWB16
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