'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
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw & Nicholas Grene
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