The Devil in disguise as Nick Shadow leads young Tom Rakewell away from true love -- his fiancee Anne Trulove -- into a life of gambling, whoring, investment shenanigans and an exceedingly strange marriage to a bearded lady. The redemptive power of love saves Tom from hellfire, but Shadow curses him with madness and he ends up in Bedlam, the madhouse.
Added by Upcoming Robot on May 2, 2008