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PYGMALION: 1941 VERSION WITH VARIANTS FROM THE 1916 EDITION

PYGMALION: 1941 VERSION WITH VARIANTS FROM THE 1916 EDITION

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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ALMA CLASSICS
Year of publication:
2021
ISBN:
978-1-84749-859-5
Pages:
144
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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.

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