Pygmalion

Description

Product ID:	9780141439501
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Pygmalion
Authors:	Author: George Bernard Shaw
Page Count:	144
Subjects:	Plays, playscripts, Plays, playscripts
Description:	Select Guide Rating Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence. ''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
Imprint Name:	Penguin Classics
Publisher Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2003-01-30

Weight	112 g
Dimensions	196 × 129 × 9 mm