'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own.
With an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE
| ISBN: | 9780141439501 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2003 |
| Author: | Bernard Shaw, Dan H Laurence |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 122 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic and pre-20th century plays Comedic plays Narrative theme: Love and relationships |
'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views.
Pygmalion features in the following genres: Classic and pre-20th century plays, Comedic plays, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
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Pygmalion was written by Bernard Shaw, Dan H Laurence and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Pygmalion has 122 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Classics series
£8.99, reduced from £9.99. In Stock.