So Raina, In the end, breaks off with Sergius and decides to marry Bluntschli.Ĭandida, written in 1894 and produced in 1895, is considered to be one of the best play of Shaw. At this moment it is revealed that he been flirting with Louka. When he comes to know about the bed room episode, he challenges Bluntschli to a duel. On the other hand Sergius develops a fascination towards Louka, a maid- servant. He tells her that Sergius won the battle wrongfully.

One night, as fugitive, he jumps into the bed room of Raina. Joined the Serbian army as hired soldier, has no false ideas about war. She is love with and engaged to Sergius, a military hero. The Petkoffs represent an aristocratic Bulgarian family consisting of Major Petkoff, his wife Catherine and their daughter Raina whose head is full of romantic ideas. The original name of the play was Alps and Balkans, because the story is based on an incident in a war between Bulgaria and Austria in 1885. In this play, which is an anti-romantic comedy, Shaw opposes and criticises the romantic ideas about love and war. The title of this play is taken from the first line of the translation by John Dryden of the Latin poet Virgil’s epic, The Aeneid ‘Arma Viumque Cano (I sing of arms and the man). At the end of the play there is that the vicar could have been, but is not the father of Vivie. Vivie revolts and frees herself both from her mother and from her lover. This would mean that Vivie and Frank are half-sister and brother. The situation reaches the climax when Vivie and her lover Frank Gardner are informed that her father is the vicar of the parish. Vivie wants to know the name of her father, but her mother does not know it hersel. She keeps her only daughter Vivie, who has received the best education ignorant of the source of her income. Warren becomes the Managing Director of a chain of hotel-brothels. Her sister Lizzy, who is only mentioned in the play, collected so much money out of his this profession that she retired to a cathedral city. Warren like her sister was born in a slum and became a prostitute and prospered well. In this play the evils of capitalism which turn women into prostitutes, are brought to light.

This play was written in 1893 but it could not be produced before 1925 because of the ban, and the objections raised by J.T. The play was a failure, although it gave a shock to the public because it dealt with the evils of slum landlordism. The play appears to be an economic essay in dramatic form. This play deals with slum-landlordism, and municipal jobbery. He is shocked to find that her father became rich by exploiting slum-dwellers.

A young doctor falls in love with a young girl. What happens in the play is matter of few lines. Seven years later in 1892, Shaw completed it. It had to be left unfinished because William Archer withdrew his collaboration. Shaw started writing this play in 1885, in collaboration with William Archer.

George bernard shaw plays aeneid