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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- Serbo-Bulgarian War, 1885
- English drama
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- British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
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- Geschichte (1894)
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- England, fiction
- Woodhouse, emma (fictitious character), fiction
- Young women, fiction
- Great britain, social life and customs, fiction
- Plays
- Shaw, bernard, 1856-1950
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