Saint Joan Book

	'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	History always Out of Date	40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