Arms and the Man
About this book
Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the Swiss soldier who begs her to hide him a terrible coward. After the war she reverses her opinions, though the tangle of relationships must be resolved before her ex-soldier can conclude the last of everyone's problems with Swiss exactitude.The play premiered to an enthusiastic reception. Only one man booed Shaw at the end, to which Shaw replied: "My dear fellow, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?"
Subjects
- aufführung
- british and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- classic literature
- copies du souffleur
- drama
- dramatic production
- england, fiction
- english drama
- facsimiles
- fiction
- geschichte (1894)
- great britain, social life and customs, fiction
- italians
- manuscripts
- plays
- production dramatique
- promptbooks
- serbo-bulgarian war, 1885
- shaw, bernard, 1856-1950
- soldiers
- theater
- woodhouse, emma (fictitious character), fiction
- young women, fiction