by George Bernard Shaw · SEIX BARRAL: OBRAS MAESTRAS DE LA LITERATURA CONTEMPORANEA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432222627
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«Pigmalión» is the play by George Bernard Shaw published by Seix Barral in hardcover (189 pages, in Spanish).
In this comedy, the phonetician Henry Higgins bets that he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a flower girl from the East End, into a lady capable of passing as a duchess merely by training her in speech. Shaw rewrites the classical myth of Pygmalion and Galatea to satirize class differences and show how Eliza claims her independence from her creator.
It belongs to the collection Obras Maestras de la Literatura Contemporánea (number 93), with a translation by Julio Broutá. This work was originally published as Pygmalion in 1913.
Suitable for readers of classic theatre and literature students, as it raises questions of language, identity and social differences.
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and was awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.
