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- The Devil's Disciple is an illustration of this tension in its purest, most melodramatic form, a conflict of polar opposites in which the conventions of society are exploded by a rhetorical strategy geared to subversion. Shaw attempts to subvert the very conception of reality commonly held by members of his genteel Victorian audience.
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Aug 26, 2021 · The main character of The Devil’s Disciple, Dick Dudgeon, is in revolt against the ideal of the family to the extent that he has rejected his own family. Identifying with the devil has prevented his ‘spirit being taken over by his mother’s life denying religion.
The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield 's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright.
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- 1897
- London
- Websterbridge, New Hampshire, 1777
The Devil’s Disciple (performed 1897) is a play set in New Hampshire during the American Revolution and is an inversion of traditional melodrama. Caesar and Cleopatra (performed 1901) is Shaw’s first great play.
The Devil’s Disciple By Bernard Shaw Set during the American War of Independence in a town in New Hampshire, this is Shaw’s only full-length play set in America. In it, he takes all of the essential ele-ments of a standard melodrama, and the notion of the ‘romantic hero’ in the form of Dick Dudgeon, and turns them inside out.
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George Bernard shaw's play The Devil's Disciple is rather too grandly named for what it is: an anti-morality-tale of Church and State in Revolutionary America, 1777. However, titling it "Unconventional Patriots" or "Free-Thinkers, Moralists, & Soldiers" would not have the same ring, nor entice as large an audience.
The Devil's Disciple is an illustration of this tension in its purest. most melodramatic form, a conflict of polar opposites in which the conventions of society are exploded by a rhetorical strategy geared to subversion.
The Devil's Disciple full plot summary including detailed synopsis and summaries for each scene.
