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• W1497018952 abstract "Some eight months after the April 1894 opening of Arms and the Man, Bernard Shaw continued to brood about its reception. Although the play was chiefly responsible for launching his fledgling career as a playwright, he was still deeply bothered that its message was completely misunderstood by the audience.1 Shaw did not dispute that Arms and the Man was far and away his most successful play to date. It simultaneously marked his directorial debut and, even more important, his first appearance in London's West End at the Avenue Theatre. A few years later he would acknowledge that the London production passed for a success; that is, the applause on the first night being as promising as could be wished; and it ran [for some fifty performances] from 21st April to the 7th of July.2 Nonetheless, on a beastly wet day in December 1894, he was determined to look past the play's accomplishments that year and their impact on his life and to deem it a failure.3 Writing to fellow playwright, Henry Arthur Jones, Shaw recalled his impressions of the audience's response to the play's London opening: I had the curious experience of witnessing an apparently insane success, with the actors and actresses almost losing their heads with the intoxication of laugh after laugh, and of going before the curtain to tremendous applause, the only person in the theatre who knew that the whole affair was a ghastly failure.4 William Butler Yeats, whose The Land of Heart's Desire served as a curtainraiser during the production run, remembered the evening rather differently. In his Autobiographies, he recalled the memorable curtain call that Shaw made after the play's premier performance. When greeted by a heckler's boos generally acknowledged to belong to Reginald Golding Bright Shaw responded with his now famous remark: I assure the gen-" @default.
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• W1497018952 title "THE CHOCOLATE CREAM SOLDIER AND THE “GHASTLY FAILURE” OF BERNARD SHAW'S <i>ARMS AND THE MAN</i>" @default.
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