Arms and the Man - An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts Paperback Bernard Shaw

from dmsteyn

This is the only play I have read or seen by Shaw, but I must admit to enjoying it immensely. It is one of two plays I am tutoring undergraduates on this year, the other being Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, both of which are very funny, but I think Shaw takes the cake for thoughtful so...

from AliceAnna

I love the chocolate cream soldier and I love the way he has Raina's number Why Louka wants a pig like Sergius I don't know, but it does create a certain symmetry. A lovely play.

from scottcholstad

Underrated and largely forgotten, which is a shame...

from BenKline

An interesting and quirky 'love' play about the intricacies of love/war/romances and specifically the way love and relationships worked in 1885-1886 Bulgaria. Shaw's irony/satire of high-society and the roles of men and women (specifically men coming home from military/war engagements) and how th...

from PaolaM

Enjoyable read, this play has good rythm, but for me it was simply entartaining, and nothing more. Much of the wit bounces off the two most chiselled characters, the maid Louka and the Swiss soldier, but the social satire feels dated today.