Arms and the man:An Anti-romantic comedy in three acts
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
812501070X
ISBN 13
9788125010708
Category
English
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Publication Year
2010
Publisher
Pages
(xvi);112
Subject
English
Description
This play marked George Bernard Shaw's introduction as an outstanding playwright to the theatre-loversof London in 1894. The play is a comedy about love and war that contradicts thepopular notion that soldiers are heroes who are inspired by patrioticsentiments, and projects fighting as a profession like any other. The play is a satire on militarism thatimplies that the inexperienced and raw youth rashly risk their lives on thebattlefront, and draws a line between the 'ideal' and the 'real'. Like war, lovetoo has no romantic glamour. The satire, as such, focuses on a great deal oftruth in love and war.
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