A self- confessed anti –romantic, Bernard Shaw gives his
play Arms and the Man a subtitle – an anti –romantic comedy in three acts and
in his Preface he explains that an anti-romantic comedy binds itself to reality
and does not gives scope to imagination and idealism. Bernard Shaw, a leading
exponent of Ibsenian realism, eschewed the English romantic dramas based on
emotion and sentiment .In Arms and the Man Shaw is a romantic comedist, but an
unrelenting campaigner of ideas, caustic...
