Pygmalion. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781522790013)

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. 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: 1522790012
ISBN-13: 9781522790013
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2015
Pages: 86
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.18d