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Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man; Candida; the Man of Destiny; You Never Can Tell Book
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Foyles
One of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is revealed. Shaw mocks deluded idealism in Candida, when a young poet becomes infatuated with the wife of a Socialist preacher. The Man of Destiny is a witty war of words between Napoleon and a ‘strange lady’, while in the exuberant farce You Never Can Tell a divided family is reunited by chance. Although Shaw intended Plays Pleasant to be gentler comedies than those in their companion volume, Plays Unpleasant, their prophetic satire is sharp and provocative.
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Blackwell
One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour...
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Penguin
'Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak...
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ASDA
Includes the plays Arms and the Man The Man of Destiny and You Never Can Tell.
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Pickabook
George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence (Editor), Bill McCormack
- 0140437940
- 9780140437942
- George Bernard Shaw
- 27 March 2003
- Penguin Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 336
- New Ed
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