Pygmalion (Illustrated Edition)
A sharp satire of British class and speech as a phonetics professor wagers to remake a Cockney flower girlBy George Bernard Shaw
Length9h 19m
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"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." (Pygmalion, Preface)
Named after a Greek mythological character the play was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence and has been successfully adapted into a motion picture and a musical comedy.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length9 hrs 19 mins
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Publish dateApr 26, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Pygmalion (Illustrated Edition)
9The Philosopher
2Introduction to the First Edition
10PREFACE TO PYGMALION
3The Problem of a Preface
11ACT I
4The Irishman
12ACT II
5The Puritan
13ACT III
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6The Progressive
14ACT IV
7The Critic
15ACT V
8The Dramatist
16APPENDIX
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