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A Romance in Five Acts

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An edition of Pygmalion (1912)

Pygmalion

A Romance in Five Acts

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Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle -- 'an East-End dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers' -- for Mrs Patrick Campbell, with whom he had a passionate but unconsummated affair.

From the outset the play was a sensational success, although Shaw was irritated by its popularity at the expense of his artistic intentions and dismissed it a s a potboiler. The Pygmalion of legend falls in love with his perfect female statue and persuades Venus to bring her to life so that he can marry her. But Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale to give it a feminist slant: while Higgins teaches Eliza to speak and act like a duchess, she also asserts her independence, adamantly refusing to be his creation.

A brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system, it is, as Nicholas Greene comments, 'the wonderful inventiveness of its comedy, the force of what it still has to say to us and the light playfulness of tone with which it is said', that ensures that Pygmalion continues to entertain us.
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Drama, Flower vending, Linguistics teachers, Social classes, Speech and social status, Man-woman relationships, open_syllabus_project, German, Dictionaries, English language, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Comedies, Speech and social status -- Drama, London (England) -- Drama, Linguistics teachers -- Drama, Social classes -- Drama, Flower vending -- Drama
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Pygmalion, Galatea, Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, Colonel Pickering, Alfred Doolittle, Mrs. Higgins, Freddy Eynsford Hill
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London, England
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1912

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London, New York

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Series
Penguin Classics
Genre
Drama.
Copyright Date
2000

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Dewey Decimal Class
822/.912
Library of Congress
PR5363 .P8 2000, PR5363.P8 2000

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Paperback
Pagination
xii, 152 p. :
Number of pages
152

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Open Library
OL3969816M
Internet Archive
pygmalionromance00shaw_0
ISBN 10
0140437894
ISBN 13
9780140437898
LCCN
2001276486
OCLC/WorldCat
247406560
Library Thing
12474
Goodreads
44569333

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Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.


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