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Titled after the lines from Virgil's Aeneid: "Arma virumque cano" (Of arms and the man I sing), this play was first produced in 1894. It was published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant which includes Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny.

Oscar Straus's 1908 operetta "The Chocolate Soldier" preserved the plot of the play pretty much intact, while (per Shaw's request) changing the characters' names. As the play opens, a Swiss mercenary, during a rout of the Serbian army by the Bulgarians, takes refuge in the bedroom of an aristocratic Bulgarian girl, the fiancee of the young Bulgarian officer who caused the rout.--Submitted by Anonymous.

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