Dubedat

He translated and promoted Marx's works, and he was a notorious scallywag who drove Elinor to suicide and was the model for "Dubedat" in George Bernard Shaw's "The Doctor's Dilemma".

Jennifer Marohasy 2009

Dubedat is living with you without being married to you?

The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

[Thundering at Dubedat] I will not allow it, do you hear?

The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

I'll put into one scale all the pounds Dubedat has borrowed, and into the other all the half-crowns that

The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

Well, Dubedat asked me to lend him half-a-crown to tip the chambermaid of the room his wife left her wraps in, and for the cloakroom.

The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

RIDGEON [thunderstruck, raising his fists to heaven] Dubedat: thou art avenged!

The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

We shall make ourselves at home for half an hour, Dubedat.

The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

Well, the fact is, when I joined Dubedat after his conversation with Mr Walpole, he said the Jews were the only people who knew anything about art, and that though he had to put up with your Philistine twaddle, as he called it, it was what I said about the drawings that really pleased him.

The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

B.B. [brightening wonderfully, as if Dubedat were already saved]

The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

[Suddenly remembering] I say: I recollect now: I passed my cigaret case to Dubedat and he didnt return it.

The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903