History Theatre / ArmsAndTheMan

''Arms and the Man'' is a comedic play first performed in 1894, written by Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw. It tells the tale of a young Bulgarian lady named Raina Petkoff, whose fiance is an officer in the Serbo-Bulgarian War. One night, a Swiss officer working for the Serbs takes refuge from the battle in her bedroom. HilarityEnsues. And that's just the first act. Things get even crazier when, after the war, Raina's fiance Sergius returns from the war and begins a kinda-sorta love affair with her maid, Louka, and Captain Bluntschli returns in peacetime, welcomed as an honored guest by Raina's father, even though he has no idea the two already know each other.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title alludes to the first line of the ''[[Literature/TheAeneid Aeneid]]''.

* NonIdleRich: Buntschli is the scion of an extremely wealthy hotel owning family in Switzerland, although as a boy, ran away into military service.

* DefeatByModesty: When Bluntschli escapes into Rainia's bedroom at the beginning of the play, he offers the fact that she will be seen in her nightgown as a reason she shouldn't call out to the soldiers outside and give him up for capture

** Of course, that's only if being a mercenary counts as military service. (You don't have to run away to join the military in Switzerland; there, [[strike:[[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou the military joins YOU!]]]] all adult men are conscripted anyway).

''Arms and the Man'' is a comedic play first performed in 1894, written by GeorgeBernardShaw. It tells the tale of a young Bulgarian lady named Raina Petkoff, whose fiance is an officer in the Serbo-Bulgarian War. One night, a Swiss officer working for the Serbs takes refuge from the battle in her bedroom. HilarityEnsues. And that's just the first act. Things get even crazier when, after the war, Raina's fiance Sergius returns from the war and begins a kinda-sorta love affair with her maid, Louka, and Captain Bluntschli returns in peacetime, welcomed as an honored guest by Raina's father, even though he has no idea the two already know each other.

''Arms and the Man'' is a comedic play first performed in 1894, written by Creaotr/GeorgeBernardShaw. It tells the tale of a young Bulgarian lady named Raina Petkoff, whose fiance is an officer in the Serbo-Bulgarian War. One night, a Swiss officer working for the Serbs takes refuge from the battle in her bedroom. HilarityEnsues. And that's just the first act. Things get even crazier when, after the war, Raina's fiance Sergius returns from the war and begins a kinda-sorta love affair with her maid, Louka, and Captain Bluntschli returns in peacetime, welcomed as an honored guest by Raina's father, even though he has no idea the two already know each other.

''ArmsAndTheMan'' is a comedic play first performed in 1894, written by GeorgeBernardShaw. It tells the tale of a young Bulgarian lady named Raina Petkoff, whose fiance is an officer in the Serbo-Bulgarian War. One night, a Swiss officer working for the Serbs takes refuge from the battle in her bedroom. HilarityEnsues. And that's just the first act. Things get even crazier when, after the war, Raina's fiance Sergius returns from the war and begins a kinda-sorta love affair with her maid, Louka, and Captain Bluntschli returns in peacetime, welcomed as an honored guest by Raina's father, even though he has no idea the two already know each other.

* {{Ruritania}}: Although the play is set in an actual country during the backdrop of a real war, this trope is definitely in use, particularly in the scene where Raina brags about how advanced her family is by noting that they have the only library in Bulgaria and wash their hands on a somewhat frequent basis.