Arms and the man, George Bernard Shaw
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Arms and the man, George Bernard Shaw
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Arms and the man
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
George Bernard Shaw
Summary
The play takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. Its heroine, Raina Petkoff, is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff, one of the heroes of that war, whom she idolizes. On the night after the Battle of Slivnitza, a Swiss mercenary soldier in the Serbian army, Captain Bluntschli, climbs in through her bedroom balcony window and threatens to shoot Raina if she gives the alarm
Target audience
adult
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