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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

Paperback | Pages: 82 pages

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Title	:	Pygmalion
Author	:	George Bernard Shaw
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 82 pages
Published	:	October 20th 1994 by Dover Publications (first published October 16th 1913)
Categories	:	Classics. Plays. Fiction. Drama

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One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady. An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, the 20th-century story pokes fun at the antiquated British class system.

In Shaw's clever adaptation, Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert, takes on a bet that he can transform an awkward cockney flower seller into a refined young lady simply by polishing her manners and changing the way she speaks. In the process of convincing society that his creation is a mysterious royal figure, the Professor also falls in love with his elegant handiwork.

The irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, together with Shaw's brilliant dialogue and splendid skills as a playwright, have made Pygmalion one of the most popular comedies in the English language. A staple of college drama courses, it is still widely performed.

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Original Title:	Pygmalion
ISBN:	0486282228 (ISBN13: 9780486282220)
Edition Language:	English URL http://store.doverpublications.com/0486282228.html
Characters:	Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, Colonel Pickering, Alfred P. Doolittle, Mrs. Pearce, Mrs. Higgins, Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Clara Eynsford-Hill, Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Setting:	London, England England United Kingdom

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3.5 stars" you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul."Even if you are not already familiar with George Bernard Shaws play Pygmalion, Im sure you are likely acquainted with either the on-stage musical version or movie adaptation titled My Fair Lady. I have fond memories of my high schools production

This play is the first one that I've read in a very long time. Although I am familiar with My Fair Lady, and I have seen the play a number of times, I had never read Pygmalion. I enjoyed the play very much, even though it is a much crueler story than I had anticipated. It's premise is that two men make a bet as to whether they can take a street urchin named Eliza Doolittle and change her to point where society deems her as royalty. After they win, the girl is tossed out into the street with all

3.5 starsThere were some really great bits that I'd like to quote on the daily, but for some reason I felt really unsatisfied with the book as a whole. Maybe it was because it was written as a play and not a novel, I don't know...

Pygmalion: def. n. A sculptor in Greek mythology who created a sculpture so beautiful that he fell in love with her.In this rendition of an age old story, professor of linguistics Henry Higgins plucks a flower girl off the streets so as to teach her proper diction and middle class manners. After befriending Colonel Pickerson, they wager that by the end of the lessons, the flower girl Eliza Doolittle, will be just as well-mannered as a duchess.Higgins: Im an eccentric professor of linguistics.

🇬🇧 My Fair Lady was the first film I saw with Audrey Hepburn, after attending the musical that was going around in Italy some time ago. I was a bit disturbed by the vision at the theater, not because I did not like the plot, but because of the attitude of the actors and the choice of the translation into Italian. Back home, I decided to watch the movie. And I fell in love with it. Literally. Now I know almost all the songs (in Italian, shame on me), and I still sing them as I clean my house.It

Reposting in honor of George Bernard Shaw's birthday, July 26. I am writing this review to honor my grandmother who recently passed away. I lost track of the number of times we listened to the soundtrack of My Fair Lady either in her car, her apartment, or my house growing up. To me Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins, and Colonel Pickering are as much the actors who played them as they are are the memories I created with my grandmother and great aunt while watching the movie or listening to its

Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse, Hear a Cornishman converse, I'd rather hear a choir singing flat.Chickens cackling in a barn Just like this one! Eliza Garn! Henry I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that? It's "Aoooow" and "Garn" that keep her in her place. Not her wretched clothes and dirty face.Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? This verbal class distinction by now should be antique. If you spoke as she does, sir, Instead of the way you do, Why, you might be selling