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When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, it seemed unlikely that his little play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time, My Fair Lady, and a motion picture that captured numerous Academy Awards. Yet such popularity should not have been surprising since succeeding generations of readers and playgoers find continual relevance in the story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society. The extraordinary wit of the master dramatist of the twentieth century has not lost its sharp edge as it cuts away at the artificiality of class distinctions and the callousness of indifference to human worth.
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Pygmalion, Galatea, Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, Colonel Pickering, Alfred Doolittle, Mrs. Higgins, Freddy Eynsford HillTimes
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Pygmalion
2009-05, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
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Pygmalion
2006 January 30, Icon Reference
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Pygmalion
2005, ICON Classics
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2005, ICON Classics
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
1998?, Klett
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- Penguin edition (70)
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Pygmalion
1973-07, Washington Square Press, Pocket Books
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1973 07, Washington Square Press
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
1961, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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"THE DAUGHTER [in the space between the central pillars, close to the one on her left] I'm getting chilled to the bone."
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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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Collected Plays with their Prefaces: Volume IV
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Complete Plays with Prefaces: Volume I
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Four Plays by Bernard Shaw
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Plays
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Portable Bernard Shaw
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Pygmalion and Major Barbara
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Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
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Pygmalion and Related Readings
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Pygmalion and Three Other Plays
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Pygmalion with Connections
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Selected Plays
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Selected Plays with Prefaces
- Six Plays
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