Deuced Odd; or The Devil's In It Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1851
story (fragment) <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>DGR began but abandoned this story, according to <xref doc="a.ap4.n12.16.rad" from="494">WMR</xref>, in 1851. WMR's note on the tale is so interesting that one regrets DGR never finished it. Apparently it would have featured the devil acting the part of a devil in a play in which the story's narrator, the actor, also played a part.</p> <p>DGR's gothic imagination was strong, and he had a distinct taste for its comic possibilities, as we see perhaps most clearly in his ballad <xref doc="a.3-1846.raw"> <title level="per">“Jan Van Hunks” . See also the set of comic verses composed around 1848 (“The devil has gone right”).

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First published by WMR in “Some Scraps of Verse and Prose by Dante Gabriel Rossetti” <hi rend="i">Pall Mall Magazine</hi> and later collected by WMR in his edition of 1911.

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WMR notes that DGR's “incitement towards writing a story about an Actor and the Devil arose partly from his reading some years previously, in <hi rend="i">Hood's Magazine</hi> , a very effective tale about the Devil acting his own part in some piece of diablerie such as <hi rend="i">Der Freischütz</hi> ”.

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1911 See WMR's note, (1911)
The text from the <hi rend="i">Pall Mall Magazine</hi> The Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 16 1898 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0