The Devil's Disciple

- 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. - ت......more

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......more

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......more

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......more

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......more