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At a glance:
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- First Published: 1894
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Setting: Bulgaria
- Characters: Raina Petkoff, Catherine, Major Paul Petkoff, Major Sergius Saranoff, Captain Bluntschli, Nicola, Louka
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Pragmatism, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, War, Idealism, Soldiers, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans
- Locales: Europe, Bulgaria
The Story:
Raina is in her bedroom on the second floor of the Petkoff house in a small town in Bulgaria when her mother enters to tell her that Sergius has just led the Bulgarians to victory in battle with the Serbs. Raina rejoices; her idealistic expectations of war and soldiers are met. Louka enters to tell them that the army orders them to lock all the doors and windows while enemy stragglers are being pursued. Catherine and Louka leave. Shots are heard outside and a man stumbles into the room. He is a Serbian artillery officer, exhausted, nervous, and hungry. When soldiers...
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