Saint Joan a chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue / Bernard Shaw ; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence ; with 'On playing Joan' by Imogene Stubbs ; and an introduction by Joley Wood.
Record details
- ISBN: 0140437916
- ISBN: 9780140437911
- Physical Description: xx, 168 pages : music pb. ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: London ; Penguin Books, 2003.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "First published in Penguin Books in 1946. Reprinted with 'On playing Joan' and a new introduction in Penguin Classics 2001. Reissued with a new chronology 2003."--title page verso.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 'On Playing Joan' / Imogen Stubbs vii -- 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 -- Evolutionary Appetite 14 -- Mere Iconography does not Matter 16 -- 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 -- 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 -- Church Uncompromised by its Amends 29 -- Cruelty, Modern and Medieval 30 -- Catholic Anti-Clericalism 31 -- Catholicism not yet Catholic Enough 32 -- Law of Change is the Law of God 33 -- Credulity, Modern and Medieval 34 -- Toleration, Modern and Medieval 35 -- Variability of Toleration 36 -- 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Theocrat 38 -- Unbroken Success essential in Theocracy 39 -- Modern Distortions of Joan's History 39 -- History always Out of Date 40 -- Real Joan not Marvellous Enough for Us 40 -- Stage Limits of Historical Representation 41 -- A Void in the Elizabethan Drama 42 -- Tragedy, not Meldorama 43 -- Inevitable Flatteries of Tragedy 43 -- Some Well-meant Proposals for the Improvement of the Play 44 -- Epilogue 45 -- To the Critics, lest they should feel Ignored 45 -- Saint Joan 49 -- Principal Works of Bernard Shaw 162.
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.3 6 16722.
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