“A dignified and poetic treatment of one of the noblest of all possible themes. Such publications are among the most welcome signs of the times.”
| + | Dial. 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 60w. |
“There are passages that quite thrill you in the first act of Jeanne d’Arc. But at the same time there is a kind of inconsequence about the piece as a whole which destroys, at least to some extent, the effect.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 222. Jl. 25, ’07. 400w. |
“It is a succession of moods and pictures with no real dramatic knot, and with but one or two dramatic situations; and the traditions of Jeanne d’Arc are sentimentalized to such a degree that they cease to be quite convincing, either as history or as material for tragedy embodying a criticism of life.”
| − | Nation. 83: 440. N. 23, ’06. 220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 240w. |
“An excellent poetical drama eminently fitted for the stage.” Louise Collier Willcox.
| + | No. Am. 186: 96. S. ’07. 110w. |
“While Mr. Mackaye has not succeeded in fusing this mass of material into a wholly organic drama, he has succeeded much more nearly in doing so than would have seemed probable at the outset.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.