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Pygmalion
Pygmalion
Author: George Bernard Shaw
When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half centruy ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time--My Fair Lady-- and an Academy Award-winning motion picture. Generations of readers and theatergoers have found relevance in Shaw's story of speech therapist Henry H...  more »
ISBN: 173990
Publication Date: 2001
Pages: 199
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Publisher: Washington Square Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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It's interesting to read this play, which was adapted into the musical, My Fair Lady. Shaw's dialogue is, as always, crisp and witty.
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Love this story. It is the foundation for the movie, "My Fair Lady"
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Shaw used Pygmalion from Roman mythology as the basis for his play. It is the story of Professor Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who wagers that he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into the toast of London society merely by teaching her how to speak with an upper-class accent. In the process, he becomes fond of her and attempts to direct her future, but she rejects his domineering ways and marries a young aristocrat.


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