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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, Galatea, Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, Colonel Pickering, Alfred Doolittle, Mrs. Higgins, Freddy Eynsford HillTimes
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
Oct 17, 2018, Franklin Classics Trade Press
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Pygmalion
Feb 09, 2018, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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May 10, 2016, L.A. Theatre Works MP3-CD from Brilliance Audio
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Apr 16, 2014, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Aug 10, 2012, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
2008, Methuen Drama
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Pygmalion: for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC, and AP Test Preparation
2006, ICON Group International, Inc.
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2006 March 5, ICON Group International, Inc.
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2006 May 5, ICON Group International, Inc.
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Pygmalion: Romanze in fünf Akten
2004, Suhrkamp
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Pygmalion: With A Preface And A Sequel
2004 June 30, Kessinger Publishing
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Coleccion Premio Nobel Bernard Shaw Pigmalion
2003, El Universo
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Pygmalion (Classic Drama)
July 16, 2002, Naxos Audiobooks, Brand: Naxos Audio Books, Naxos Audio Books
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July 2002, Naxos Audiobooks
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
2000, Penguin Books
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
1999 October, Econo-Clad Books
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
1998?, Klett
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
1974, Penguin Books
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1961, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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1923, S. Fischer
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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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