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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

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

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

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

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

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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Based on the classic legend, Pygmalion is about Professor Henry Higgins, a renowned teacher of phonetics. Higgins takes on Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, as his student. Under his guidance, Eliza is transformed from a guttersnipe into an elegant woman but then, like... 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

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