TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Bernard
TI  - Pygmalion
T2  - Collins classics
SN  - 9780008480073 (paperback)
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - William Collins
KW  - Social classes
KW  - England
KW  - Drama
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Speech and social status
KW  - English drama
KW  - 20th century
KW  - London (England)
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
ER  -