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Pygmalion is a 5-act play by George Bernard Shaw. It was written in 1912 and first produced in 1913. The plot revolves around Professor Henry Higgins’ bet with a colleague over whether he can transform a low-class flower girl, Liza Doolittle, into the equivalent of a Duchess in just 6 months. Pygmalion was a Greek mythological figure who fell in love with a sculpture he had carved and was a popular theme in Victorian drama.
Most people would be familiar with the characters Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins from the hit 1956 musical My Fair Lady, which was adapted from Pygmalion, though the plots differ in small but significant ways. In particular Shaw wanted to avoid any sense of a “happy ending” and, after viewing a performance of the play where an extra scene had been added, he wrote a sequel which definitively states what came after. The sequel was included in the published edition.
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Pygmalion
2018-06-25, Black & White Classics
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in English
- 1912 edition
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Pygmalion
2009-05, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Enriched Classic Edition (16)
1416500405 9781416500407
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Pygmalion
2006 January 30, Icon Reference
Paperback
in English
- Webster's Thesaurus Edition
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Pygmalion
2005, ICON Classics
Paperback
in English
- Webster's French Thesaurus Edition
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Pygmalion
2005, ICON Classics
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in English and Korean
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0497913720 9780497913724
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
1998?, Klett
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in English
- Penguin edition (70)
3125738008 9783125738003
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Pygmalion
1973-07, Washington Square Press, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- First Pocket Books Printing (6)
0671475118 9780671475116
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
1961, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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- Eighth impression
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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.
Also contained in:
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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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