Shaw’s harrowing 1936 classic Bury the Dead takes place during ‘the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night.’ While a military burial detail goes about its sad duties, the dead soldiers shockingly begin to rise up, pleading not to be buried. Word of their insurrection spreads rapidly: the dead will not yield so easily. In a series of touching scenes the dead men talk with their loved ones of the days of living, now lost forever.