Introduction: Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward
摘要
The most fantastical incident in The Devil’s DiscipleShaw, Bernardplays (1896), Bernard Shaw’s swift-moving, muscular mash up of melodrama’s stock characters and shock reversals, is the appearance in act three of British General John BurgoyneBurgoyne, John, quite far from his campaign headquarters in Quebec but an ideal antagonist for Richard Dudgeon’s Diabolean ethics.