Pygmalion: 1941 Version with Variants from the 1916 Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847498595)

When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator - and the scene is set for a play that questions the class system, social appearances and the role of women in society.

Universally regarded as Shaw's most successful work, Pygmalion - here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 - has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth's undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.

Author: George Bernard Shaw
ISBN-10: 1847498590
ISBN-13: 9781847498595
Publisher: Alma Books
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2021
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10045 / Pygmalion