Drama & theatre · 1935
Arms and the Man
€65
One copy available · ships from the Netherlands within two working days
- First published
- 1898
- This copy printed
- 1935
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper wrappers
- Condition
- Good — Honest wear and some foxing, sound and complete.
- Pages
- 94
About this work
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?"
