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The Devil's Disciple

Bernard Shaw

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. . .n's chair; and his lip rolls up horribly from his dog tooth as he meets her look of undisguised hatred.) Well, mother: keeping up appearances as usual? that's right, that's right. (Judith pointedly moves away from his neighborhood to the other side of the kitchen, holding her skirt instinctively as if to save it from contamination. Uncle Titus promptly marks his approval of her action by rising from the sofa, and placing a chair for her to sit down upon.) What! Uncle William! I haven't seen you since you gave up drinking. (Poor Uncle William, shamed, would protest; but Richard claps him heartily on his shoulder, adding) you have given it up, haven't you? (releasing him with a playful push) of course you have: quite right too; you overdid it. (He turns away from Uncle William and makes for the sofa.) And now, where is that upright horsedealer Uncle Titus? Uncle Titus: come forth. (He comes upon him holding the chair as Judith sits down.) As usual, looking after the ladies. . . Read More

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George Bernard Shaw’s Devil’s Disciple is quite an example of melodrama gone, so to speak, good. I mean, everything is there: mistaken identity, turnaround of events, conjugal triangle, surprise inheritance, self-sacrifice, contrast between appearance and essence with a bit of too much emotional ten

Some of my friends describe this play as a parody of melodrama. It certainly has its humorous aspects as it contrasts apparent religious piety against the reality of their actual behavior. The setting is colonial American during the Revolutionary War in a small New England town during British Genera

يطل المناضل المصري علاء عبد الفتاح في كل سطر من سطور المسرحية و لا عجب في ذلك فالمسرحية الهزلية فصولها مستمرة في مصر حتى الأن. و علاء عبدالفتاح لمن لا يعرفه هو شاب مصري حبسته كل السلطات منذ المجلس العسكري بعد ثورة يناير حتى السيسي بعدها و مرورا بالإخوان بينهما و تهمته الوحيدة هي حب مصر و الحرص على م

- ميلودراما كلاسيكية تدور احداثها إبّان الثورة الأمريكية ، حيث خلق برناردشو شخصية شيطانية (ديك، بما يعنيه هذا الإسم في اللغة الإنكليزية)، يقدمها في الجزء الأول على انها الشر المتجسد، او الجزء الأسود من الميلودراما، ثم يأخذها في الجزئين اللاحقين وينتشلها من اسفل الى اعلى، ويتوجها ناصعة في الخاتمة.

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By 1896, Shaw had already written seven plays: ”unpleasant” Ibsenite problem plays and “pleasant” comedies with witty Wildean dialogue (and a little sermonizing thrown in). He had won a measure of artistic respect, but what he didn’t have, as yet, was a commercial triumph.

Then Shaw began to contempl

Like valves in the heart, this drama opens up and constructs. It becomes intimate with the central heartbreaking moral dilemma, or epic with a stampede of quite intriguing satellite players.

Also, this one struck me as having The Simpson's episode arch: The first act has very little to do with the re

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