The Devil's Disciple : A Melodrama in Three Acts
by Shaw, Bernard
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1929. Pencil details of a committee (?) meeting and action inside front cover. List of names (possible cast members ?) inside rear cover. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean very tight pages with slightly dusty slightly marked boards, foxing to some pages, slight sunning to spine and very minor bumping to corners. 88pp. Scripts for two of Bernard Shaw's plays, preceded in each case by lengthy discussion of the subject matter.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7 x 5 inches.
Synopsis
Shaw's tale depicts his version of how the British lost the American colonies: because of a stupid mistake at the War Office someone forgot to tell Lord North to join up with General "Gentleman" Johnny Burgoyne and smash the rebels. Rev. Anthony Anderson is a peace-loving parson who ends up becoming a belligerent firebrand of a rebel. Dirk Dungeon, who, in typical Shawvian irony, starts out as a unrepentant, cowardly scamp and ends up as the personification of Christian virtues.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Godley Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021065
- Title
- The Devil's Disciple : A Melodrama in Three Acts
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Constable & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Play, Scripts,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Performing Arts - Theatre; Fiction;
- Size
- 7 x 5 inches
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