Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw.
Material type: TextSeries: Collins classicsPublisher: London : William Collins, 2021Description: xi, 139 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780008480073 (paperback)
- 0008480079 (paperback)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | SHAW, BERNARD | Available | 33111010792626 |
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George Bernard Shaw's classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.
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.