Pygmalion

Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
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Paperback
h198 x 128mm - 144pg
23 Jun 2021 UK
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9781847498595
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When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wages with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that, behind her cockney parlance, the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator - and the scene is set for a play that questions the class system, social appearances and the role of women in society. Universally regarded as Shaw' s most successful work for the stage, Pygmalion - here presented in its original 1916 version, with a wealth of extra material, including the author' s subsequent revisions and additions to the text - has spawned a great number of screen adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth' s undiminishing ability to find new incarnations in modern life.
The author of over fifty works for the stage - among them Pygmalion and Man and Superman - the Irish playwright and political writer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was the leading dramatist of his generation and the recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781847498595
Published: 23 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Alma Classics
Publisher: Alma Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Pages: 144

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