The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist
George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after
Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection
Three Plays for Puritans together with
Captain Brassbound's Conversion and
Caesar and Cleopatra. Set in Colonial America during the
Revolutionary era, the play tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed "Devil's disciple". In a twist characteristic of Shaw's love of paradox, Dudgeon sacrifices himself in a Christ-like gesture despite his professed Infernal allegiance.