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An edition of Pygmalion (1912)

Pygmalion

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Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. Adapted into the Oscar-winning musical film My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison in 1964, Pygmalion

This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. Also included in this volume is Shaw's preface, as well as his 'sequel' written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventially romantic ending.
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Penguin Books
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English
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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, England

First Sentence

"London at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain."

Edition Notes

UK/CAN/USA

Series
Penguin Classics
Copyright Date
2000

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR5363

Contributors

Editor
Dan H. Laurence
Introduction
Nicholas Grene

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xx, 122p
Number of pages
176

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7359922M
Internet Archive
pygmalionpenguin00geor
ISBN 10
0141439505
ISBN 13
9780141439501
OCLC/WorldCat
984711967, 851807571, 878704633, 51934991
amazon.co.uk_asin
0141439505
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0141439505
Library Thing
12474
Goodreads
44569408

Work Description

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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As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place.
added by Lisa. "First sentence."

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