Издания и произведения

Arms and the Man, optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect.

In the opening scene of Arms and the Man, which establishes the play's embattled Balkan setting, young Raina learns of her suitor's heroic exploits in combat. She rhapsodizes that it is "a glorious world for women who can see its glory and men who can act its romance!" Soon, however, such romantic falsifications of love and warfare are brilliantly and at times hilariously unmasked in a comedy that reveals George Bernard Shaw at his best as an acute social observer and witty provocateur. First produced on the London stage in 1894, Arms and the Man continues to be among the most performed of Shaw’s plays around the world. The play is…

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. He was called onto stage after the curtain, where he received enthusiastic applause. However, amidst the cheers, one audience member booed. Shaw replied, in characteristic fashion, "My dear fellow, I quite…

Цель настоящей серии «Школьной библио­течки» дать учащимся 10-го класса ма­териал для домашнего чтения - избранные рассказы и отрывки из лучших произведений английской и американской литературы. Чтобы учащиеся не потеряли интерес к чте­нию из-за обилия языковых трудностей, тексты несколько адаптированы и сокра­щены. Достаточно полные комментарии избавляют от необходимости прибегать к словарю. В представленное издание вошла адаптированная пьеса Бернарда Шоу «Шоколадный солдатик» (Arms and the man).