Arms And The Man

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. The play discusses how war is made how it is fought and how parties sue for peace at the close of it. Indeed the play's title is a direct quote from Virgil's Aeneid the Roman epic that glorifies war. George Bernard Shaw's three-act comedy Arms and the Man follows Raina Petkoff as she learns the reality of the world around her. Set during the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885 Shaw's play takes a critical look at the romanticizing of love and war the challenges of self-reflections and the gray world of absolute truth.