Synopsis
Three Plays for Puritans - The Devil's Disciple & Caesar and Cleopatra & Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Published by Penguin
In The Devil's Disciple, a clergyman turned soldier and the Shavian ideal of a Puritan hero - 'like all genuinely religious men, a reprobate and an outcast' - willingly risks his life for a stranger. Caesar and Cleopatra, a brilliant satire on contemporary Britain, contains an utterly unexpected portrait of Julius Caesar ('part brute, part woman')
In Captain Brassbound's Conversion it is Lady Cicely's cunning manipulation of the truth that ensures that fairness, rather than justice, prevails
Three Plays for Puritans reveal Shaw's constant delight in turning received wisdom upside down and celebrate the triumph of the individual conscience over accepted morality