Arms And the Man: A Pleasant Play (Bernard Shaw Library) - Softcover

Shaw, George Bernard

 
9780140450354: Arms And the Man: A Pleasant Play (Bernard Shaw Library)

Synopsis

Questions traditional views of courage and honor through the story of Captain Bluntschli, a Swiss soldier stationed in Bulgaria in the late nineteenth century.

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Review

'The competence and breadth of Wearing's research...make this edition an obvious choice for classroom teaching and pleasure reading. Moreover, it should be the one of record for any serious scholar.'
--Shaw: The Annual Bernard Shaw Studies (September 2009)

About the Author

J.P. Wearing, Ph.D, is Professor Emeritus of English, University of Arizona. Among his thirteen books are: G.B. Shaw: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him: Volume I: 1871-1930; Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor: Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw and the sixteen-volume The London Stage 1890-1959. He has held a Killam Post-doctoral Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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