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George Bernard Shaw's classic play about Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins. Based on the Greek myth in which a sculptor falls in love with his creation, Pygmalion tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a lower class girl with a cockney accent. Henry Higgins, a professor... Read Full Overview

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady . An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of... Read Full Overview

Transform Your Understanding of Shaw's Pygmalion with This Enhanced Edition! Step into the world of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion like never before with this meticulously curated annotated edition. Whether you're a student, educator, or lover of classic literature, this edition... Read Full Overview

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess... Read Full Overview

A chance meeting between Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, and Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle leads to a bet that he can teach her how to speak proper English. While Higgins undertakes an effort to train Liza out of her Cockney accent to prove that it is one's manner... Read Full Overview

Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess... Read Full Overview

Pygmalion , written by George Bernard Shaw in 1912, is a play about transformation. The story follows the journey of Eliza Doolittle, a young woman from a lower-class background, who is taught to speak with a higher-class accent by Professor Henry Higgins. Through Higgins' tutelage,... Read Full Overview

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George Bernard Shaw's classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.

This Squid Ink Classic includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations for scholarly secondary sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and critical essays for when your teacher requires extra resources in MLA format for your research paper.

A perfect workbook companion for George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion". The full text is spaced to allow reading and annotation to be done with ease and each page includes a note section to allow for better organization. Intended to make life a little easier for students (or performers)... Read Full Overview

First performed in 1913, "Pygmalion" is George Bernard's Shaw's play regarding two scholars of phonetics, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, trying to test their theories on an unsuspecting flower girl. When Higgins boasts he could pass anyone off as a lord or... Read Full Overview

Pigmali?n, de George Bernard Shaw, es un cl?sico atemporal que explora los temas de la clase social, la identidad y la transformaci?n. La obra gira en torno al profesor Henry Higgins, experto en fon?tica, que acepta el reto de transformar a Eliza Doolittle, una pobre florista... Read Full Overview

Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle--"an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich... Read Full Overview

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a witty and thought-provoking play that explores class, identity, and the power of language. Immerse yourself in this captivating story of transformation and social commentary, crafted by one of the greatest playwrights of all time.
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When George Bernard Shaw wrote "Pygmalion" over a century ago, it seemed unlikely that his little play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time, "My Fair La-dy," and a motion picture that captured numerous Academy Awards. Yet such popularity should... Read Full Overview