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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 ("Of arms and the man I sing"). [ 5 ] The play was first produced on 21 April 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida , You ...
The Doctor's Dilemma (play) 1906: 1911 1907: The Interlude at the Playhouse (playlet) 1907: 1927 1907–08: Getting Married (play) 1908: 1911 1907–08: Brieux: A Preface (criticism) 1910 1909: The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (play) 1909: 1911; rev. 1930 1909: Press Cuttings (play) 1909: 1909 1909: The Glimpse of Reality (play) 1927: 1926 1909 ...
Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903, in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme. [1] Man and Superman opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 21 May 1905 as a four-act play produced by the Stage Society, and then by John Eugene Vedrenne and Harley Granville-Barker on 23 May, without Act III ("Don Juan in Hell"). [2]
Arms and the Man is an 1894 play by George Bernard Shaw. Arms and the Man may also refer to: Arms and the Man, adaptation by Cecil Lewis; Arms and the Man, adaptation by Franz Peter Wirth; Arms and the Man, title of American Rifleman from 1906 to 1923
Arms and the Man or Heroes (German: Helden) is a 1958 West German historical comedy film directed by Franz Peter Wirth and based on the 1894 play of the same name by George Bernard Shaw. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [1] It was also entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. [2]
Arms and the Man is a 1932 British film based on the play Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. [1] It was written and directed by Cecil Lewis. References
Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by Bernard Shaw during the First World War, published in 1919 and first performed in November 1920 at the Garrick Theatre, New York, followed by a West End production the following year. The play reflects Shaw's disillusion with post-war Britain.
The three-character play is set in the drawing room of a flat located on Cromwell Road in London. Shaw describes Henry Apjohn as "a very beautiful youth, moving as in a dream, walking as on air," while Aurora Bompas has "an air of being a young and beautiful woman but as a matter of hard fact, she is, dress and pretensions apart, a very ordinary South Kensington female of about 37, hopelessly ...