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In the opening scene of Arms and the Man, which establishes the play's embattled Balkan setting, young Raina learns of her suitor's heroic exploits in combat. She rhapsodizes that it is "a glorious world for women who can see its glory and men who can act its romance!" Soon, however, such romantic falsifications of love and warfare are brilliantly and at times hilariously unmasked in a comedy that reveals George Bernard Shaw at his best as an acute social observer and witty provocateur.
First produced on the London stage in 1894, Arms and the Man continues to be among the most performed of Shaw’s plays around the world. The play is reprinted in its entirety here from an authoritative British edition, and is complete with Shaw's stimulating preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.
First produced on the London stage in 1894, Arms and the Man continues to be among the most performed of Shaw’s plays around the world. The play is reprinted in its entirety here from an authoritative British edition, and is complete with Shaw's stimulating preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.
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In the opening scene of Arms and the Man, which establishes the play's embattled Balkan setting, young Raina learns of her suitor's heroic exploits in combat. She rhapsodizes that it is "a glorious world for women who can see its glory and men who can act its romance!" Soon, however, such romantic falsifications of love and warfare are brilliantly and at times hilariously unmasked in a comedy that reveals George Bernard Shaw at his best as an acute social observer and witty provocateur.
First produced on the London stage in 1894, Arms and the Man continues to be among the most performed of Shaw’s plays around the world. The play is reprinted in its entirety here from an authoritative British edition, and is complete with Shaw's stimulating preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.
First produced on the London stage in 1894, Arms and the Man continues to be among the most performed of Shaw’s plays around the world. The play is reprinted in its entirety here from an authoritative British edition, and is complete with Shaw's stimulating preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.
Reprint of the play as published in Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., London, second 1908 edition. glorious world;heroic exploits;social observer;enemy soldier;chocolate cream;acute social;science students;romantic ideals;undergraduate students;surprising treat;romantic notion;late victorian;english literature;sisto;bulgarians;overmedicated;falsifications;adjourn;cartridges;sergius;begley;provocateur;pygmalion;embattled;1894;rhapsodizes;1885;playwrights;unmasked;balkan;nicola;idiocy;balcony;comedies;swiss;listeners;farce;heroism;hilariously;preface;warfare;performed;bluntschli;raina petkoff;bulgaria;serbia;kerala;america;books on comedies;books on playwrights;books on heroic exploits;books on heroisms;books on cartridges;books on listeners;books on chocolate creams;books on glorious worlds;books on sergius;books on warfares;books on enemy soldiers;books on undergraduate students;books on bulgarians;books on prefaces;books on farces;books on social observers;books on sisto;books on pygmalions;books on balconies;books on falsifications;books on science students;books on balkan;books on romantic ideals;books on english literatures;books on provocateurs;books on idiocies;books on 1885;books on begley;books on nicolas
