A discussion of Verdi's Ernani occurs early in this work, with one participant believing it to feature a devil in red velvet.  After correcting him, the other participant brags absurdly about her stairwell and claims to have the only library in the country.  Other characters
A discussion of Verdi's Ernani occurs early in this work, with one participant believing it to feature a devil in red velvet.  After correcting him, the other participant brags absurdly about her stairwell and claims to have the only library in the country.  Other characters include a servant who dreams of opening a shop in the capital city, Nicola, and another servant who catches the eye of the fianc? of her mistress, Louka.  That fianc?, Major Saranoff, ends the play by exclaiming, "What a man! Is he a man?" of a character whom he attempts to engage in a machine gun duel.  That man eventually marries the girl who gave him the epithet "Chocolate Cream" after he climbed through her bedroom window, Raina.  Dubbed an anti-romantic comedy by its author, this is, for 10 points, what play about the Petkoff family and the Swiss Captain Bluntschli, titled after The Aeneid by George Bernard Shaw.
A discussion of Verdi's Ernani occurs early in this work, with one participant believing it to feature a devil in red velvet.  
Arms and the Man