2 Whether the play succeeds or fails as an attack on romanticism is the question they typically favor. Most critics seem to agree with Shaw, for the play’s setting is rarely the focus of their attention. So I looked up Bulgaria and Servia in an atlas, made all of the characters end in ‘off’, and the play was complete.” 1 Shaw’s words invite a reading of Arms and the Man ’s Bulgarian setting as nothing more than an ‘off’ to the ends of the characters’ names. At last Sidney Webb told me of the Servo-Bulgarian war, which was the thing. Now I am absolutely ignorant of history and geography so I went about among my friends and asked if they knew of any wars. In a self-drafted interview published in the Pall Mall Budget to advertise the upcoming production of Arms and the Man at Florence Farr’s Avenue Theater, Shaw explained that “ was nearly finished before I had settled on its locality.
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