George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple is a melodrama. Or, wait, it's a comedy. No, it's an antiwar satire with political overtones. Anyway, you get my drift. It is difficult to pin down, this 1897 play that takes place during the American Revolution but which was considered at the time to be a thinly veiled call for a free Ireland. That link with the British-Irish situation would be difficult to discern in this …
