무기와 인간.The Book of Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw

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무기와 인간.The Book of Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw
무기와 인간 . Arms and the Man. 버나드 쇼의 희곡으로, 1885년 불가리아와 세르비아 간의 실제 전쟁을 배경으로, 희극적 장치를 이용해 관객을 즐겁게 하면서도 전쟁과 사랑에 대한 낭만적 통념을 통렬하게 비판.
조지 버나드 쇼 (George Bernard Shaw, 1856년 - 1950년)
Arms and the Man
A Pleasant Play
by George Bernard Shaw
초기 희곡들을 “불쾌한 희극”(Plays unpleasant)이라 명하고 분위기를 반전하기 위해 “유쾌한 희곡들”(Pleasant plays)을 집필
이 극은 믿음과 이상에 대한 갈등을 다루고 있는데, 전쟁과 사랑에 대해 로맨틱하고 이상적인 관념을 갖고 있는 레이나(Raina), 그녀와 대립되는 입장으로 전쟁의 현실적인 모습을 대변하는 블런츨리(Bluntschli), 사랑과 결혼의 현실을 대변하는 루카(Louka).

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무기와 인간.The Book of Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw

Contents
START INTRODUCTION
ARMS AND THE MAN
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
END

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무기와 인간.The Book of Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw
무기와 인간 . Arms and the Man. 버나드 쇼의 희곡으로, 1885년 불가리아와 세르비아 간의 실제 전쟁을 배경으로, 희극적 장치를 이용해 관객을 즐겁게 하면서도 전쟁과 사랑에 대한 낭만적 통념을 통렬하게 비판.
조지 버나드 쇼 (George Bernard Shaw, 1856년 - 1950년)
Arms and the Man
A Pleasant Play
by George Bernard Shaw
초기 희곡들을 “불쾌한 희극”(Plays unpleasant)이라 명하고 분위기를 반전하기 위해 “유쾌한 희곡들”(Pleasant plays)을 집필
이 극은 믿음과 이상에 대한 갈등을 다루고 있는데, 전쟁과 사랑에 대해 로맨틱하고 이상적인 관념을 갖고 있는 레이나(Raina), 그녀와 대립되는 입장으로 전쟁의 현실적인 모습을 대변하는 블런츨리(Bluntschli), 사랑과 결혼의 현실을 대변하는 루카(Louka).

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무기와 인간.The Book of Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw

INTRODUCTION
To the irreverent―and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?―there is something very amusing in the attitude of the orthodox criticism toward Bernard Shaw. He so obviously disregards all the canons and unities and other things which every well-bred dramatist is bound to respect that his work is really unworthy of serious criticism (orthodox). Indeed he knows no more about the dramatic art than, according to his own story in “The Man of Destiny,” Napoleon at Tavazzano knew of the Art of War. But both men were successes each in his way―the latter won victories and the former gained audiences, in the very teeth of the accepted theories of war and the theatre. Shaw does not know that it is unpardonable sin to have his characters make long speeches at one another, apparently thinking that this embargo applies only to long speeches which consist mainly of bombast and rhetoric. There never was an author who showed less predilection for a specific medium by which to accomplish his results. He recognized, early in his days, many things awry in the world and he assumed the task of mundane reformation with a confident spirit. It seems such a small job at twenty to set the times aright. He began as an Essayist, but who reads essays now-a-days?―he then turned novelist with no better success, for no one would read such preposterous stuff as he chose to emit. He only succeeded in proving that absolutely rational men and women―although he has created few of the latter―can be most extremely disagreeable to our conventional way of thinking.
As a last resort, he turned to the stage, not that he cared for the dramatic art, for no man seems to care less about “Art for Art’s sake,” being in this a perfect foil to his brilliant compatriot and contemporary, Wilde. He cast his theories in dramatic forms merely because no other course except silence or physical revolt was open to him. For a long time it seemed as if this resource too was doomed to fail him. But finally he has attained a hearing and now attempts at suppression merely serve to advertise their victim.
It will repay those who seek analogies in literature to compare Shaw with Cervantes. After a life of heroic endeavor, disappointment, slavery, and poverty, the author of “Don Quixote” gave the world a serious work which caused to be laughed off the world’s stage forever the final vestiges of decadent chivalry.

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