The Essential Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated Edition). GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

over Major Fraser under fire, and by a quite readable adventure, chronicled by Burgoyne, with Lady Harriet Ackland. Lady Harriet’s husband achieved the remarkable feat of killing himself, instead of his adversary, in a duel. He overbalanced himself in the heat of his swordsmanship, and fell with his head against a pebble. Lady Harriet then married the warrior chaplain, who, like Anthony Anderson in the play, seems to have mistaken his natural profession.

      The rest of the Devil’s Disciple may have actually occurred, like most stories invented by dramatists; but I cannot produce any documents. Major Swindon’s name is invented; but the man, of course, is real. There are dozens of him extant to this day.

       Captain Brassbound’s Conversion (1900)

       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

       ACT I

       ACT II

       ACT III

       NOTES TO CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND’S CONVERSION