Pygmalion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781494801120)

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. 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.

Author: George Bernard Shaw
ISBN-10: 1494801124
ISBN-13: 9781494801120
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/23/2013
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.28d