Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil’s Aeneid in Latin:Arma virumque cano (Arms and the man I sing).The play was first produced on April 21 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as part of Shaw’s Plays Pleasant volume which also included Candida You Never Can Tell and The Man of Destiny. The play was one of Shaw’s first commercial successes.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Captain Bluntschli, Catharine Petkoff, Louka, Major Petkoff, Nicola, Raina Petkoff, Sergius Saranoff
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