- Drama, Manuscripts, Serbo-Bulgarian War, 1885, English drama
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.
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Comic, classical in form, cool and warm.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- George Bernard Shaw
- First published
- 1905
- Pages
- 94
- Publisher
- Franklin Classics, Longmans in association with Constable, Dodo Press
- Editions
- 129
- Language
- French, English, Arabic, gre
- ISBN
- 9780343659578
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“To the irreverent-and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?-there is something very amusing in the attitude of the orthodox criticism toward Bernard Shaw.”
An Irish playwright.
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