PYGMALION

By: George Bernard Shaw

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Hardcover | 31 January 2025

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Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. Henry Higgins, a phonetician, accepts a bet that simply by changing the speech of a Cockney flower seller he will he able, in six months, to pass her off as a duchess. Eliza undergoes grueling training. When she successfully ""passes"" in high society having in the process become a lovely young woman of sensitivity and rate Higgins dismisses her abruptly as a successfully completed experiment. Eliza, who now belongs neither to the upper class, whose mannerisms and speech she has learned, nor to the lower dess, from which she cane, rejects his dehumanizing attitude. George Bernard Shaw (06 July 1856-2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His inlluence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923), With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

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