_Saint Joan was performed for the first time by The Theatre Guild in the Garrick Theatre, New York City, on the 28th December 1923, with Winifred Lenihan in the title-part. Its first performance in London took place on the 26th March 1924 in the New Theatre in St Martin’s Lane, with Sybil Thorndike as the Saint._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS Preface— PAGE Joan the Original and Presumptuous v Joan and Socrates vii Contrast with Napoleon viii Was Joan Innocent or Guilty? x Joan’s Good Looks xiii Joan’s Social Position xiv Joan’s Voices and Visions xvii The Evolutionary Appetite xx The mere Iconography does not matter xxiii The Modern Education which Joan escaped xxiii Failures of the Voices xxvi Joan a Galtonic Visualizer xxviii Joan’s Manliness and Militarism xxviii Was Joan Suicidal? xxxi Joan Summed Up xxxii Joan’s Immaturity and Ignorance xxxiv The Maid in Literature xxxv Protestant Misunderstandings of the Middle Ages xl Comparative Fairness of Joan’s Trial xlii Joan not tried as a Political Offender xliv The Church uncompromised by its Amends xlviii Cruelty, Modern and Medieval l Catholic Anti-Clericalism liii Catholicism not yet Catholic Enough liv The Law of Change is the Law of God lvi Credulity, Modern and Medieval lviii Toleration, Modern and Medieval lix Variability of Toleration lxi The Conflict between Genius and Discipline lxiv Joan as Theocrat lxvi Unbroken Success essential in Theocracy lxvii Modern Distortions of Joan’s History lxviii History always out of Date lxix The Real Joan not Marvellous Enough for Us lxx The Stage Limits of Historical Representation lxxii A Void in the Elizabethan Drama lxxiii