Pygmalion

English language

Published 2019 by Standard Ebooks.

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Pygmalion is a 5-act play by George Bernard Shaw. It was written in 1912 and first produced in 1913. The plot revolves around Professor Henry Higgins’ bet with a colleague over whether he can transform a low-class flower girl, Liza Doolittle, into the equivalent of a Duchess in just 6 months. Pygmalion was a Greek mythological figure who fell in love with a sculpture he had carved and was a popular theme in Victorian drama.

        <p>Most people would be familiar with the characters Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins from the hit 1956 musical <i>My Fair Lady</i>, which was adapted from <i>Pygmalion</i>, though the plots differ in small but significant ways. In particular Shaw wanted to avoid any sense of a “happy ending” and, after viewing a performance of the play where an extra scene had been added, he wrote a sequel which definitively states what came after. The sequel …

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Subjects

  • Comedies
  • Speech and social status -- Drama
  • London (England) -- Drama
  • Linguistics teachers -- Drama
  • Social classes -- Drama
  • Flower vending -- Drama