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Overview
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?"
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- ISBN-13: 9781717136244
- ISBN-10: 1717136249
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: April 2018
- Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.15 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
- Page Count: 70
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