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• Newberry and Colacurcio also point out that the "gray champion" is repeatedly associated with the devil: When the voice in the crowd fears that now "Satan will strike his master-stroke presently," it is obviously warning of an imminent act of violence by Andros and his soldiers, but immediately after this exclamation the gray champion appears in the street, and Bullivant sneers down from his steed at the supposed old dodderer: "Doubtless, he thinks to put us down with a proclamation in Old Noll's name!" In support of his thesis of the gray champion as an emissary of Satan, Newberry also refers to Scott's example, who at least hints that the angel of Hadley, as a regicide, is in league with evil.
• Conservatives were enraged by his portrayal of the nobility, Slavophiles denounced Turgenev for denigrating his native Russia, while revolutionaries called the author a senile dodderer unable or unwilling to appreciate young Russians’ strength and will.
• He summarises vaudevilles as "satirical farce, lampooning the bourgeoisie and using slapstick, dance, song and such stock characters as dodderer, philanderer, pretty girl, jealous husband and peppery soldier"; he contrasts this with "well-made" plays, which centred on a tightly-organised plot in which "the entire action was motivated by some secret involving the main character, a secret revealed only gradually as the play proceeded, until by the final curtain full knowledge had completely changed everyone's lives".

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