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Arms And The Man

by George Bernard Shaw

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Info:	Filiquarian (2007), Paperback, 116 pages
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This play shows Shaw's contempt for war, especially the romanticized, glorified aspects of war that focus on noble, abstract notions and ignore the grim, cruel realities.

AlexTheHunn | Jul 14, 2009 |

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Arms and the Man

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1894

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Raina! Raina! Why, where -- Heavens, child! are you out in the night air instead of in your bed?

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0486264769, Paperback)

Witty masterpiece combines high comedy with social commentary in deflating romantic misconceptions of love and warfare. First produced on the London stage in 1894, Arms and the Man is one of the most acted and studied of Shaw’s plays. It is reprinted here from an authoritative early edition, complete with Shaw’s preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.

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