by Bernard Shaw · Methuen Drama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713679977
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«Pygmalion» is the play by Bernard Shaw, published by Methuen Drama in paperback (208 pages, in English).
The play, premiered in London in 1914, tells how the phonetics expert Henry Higgins transforms Eliza Doolittle, a flower girl of humble origins, into a lady of high society through a linguistic experiment. Through this plot, Shaw questions classism, the role of women and social identity. This critical edition includes a substantial introduction, textual notes and appendices with historical material on the premiere and its different endings.
Published in 2008 in the New Mermaids series, this edition is edited by L. W. Conolly and includes Shaw's original preface and epilogue.
Aimed at students of literature and theater, as well as readers seeking an annotated edition with critical apparatus of one of the classics of British theater.
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.
