Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition : Definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants

Name: Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition : Definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants
Brand: George Bernard Shaw
SKU: 9781847498595
Price: 5.77 GBP
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by George Bernard Shaw

Title:

Author:

George Bernard Shaw

Series (if any):

Alma Classics Evergreens

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

160 pages

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing plc

ISBN-13:

9781847498595

EAN:

9781847498595

Classifications:

Plays, playscripts

Weight (g):

270

Dimensions (mm):

128 x 198 x 18

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£5.77

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Description

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.