by George Bernard Shaw · Pocket Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780671704964
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«Pygmalion» is the play by George Bernard Shaw, published by Pocket Classics in paperback (224 pages, in English).
The phonetics professor Henry Higgins bets he can turn Eliza Doolittle, a London flower girl, into a lady of high society by teaching her to speak correctly. The transformation leaves her between two worlds and at odds with her mentor. With irony, the play examines language, class and gender, and inspired the musical My Fair Lady.
The play was originally published in 1913; this edition is part of the Enriched Classics series.
Frequent reading in literature and theatre courses, and a work for those who want to discover the classic that inspired My Fair Lady.
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.
