A New Trick to Cheat the Devil

About the show

After Anne rejects her lover Slightall for the aristocratic Lord Skales, he falls into spendthrift behavior and debt. Her father stages an infernal masque and disguises himself as the Devil, offering financial rescue in exchange for Slightall’s soul; the supposed diabolical marriage instead reunites the lovers. In a comic subplot, a friar exposes an innkeeper’s wife and her constable lover through a staged conjuring trick.