by George Bernard Shaw · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402081230
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«Pigmalión» is the play by George Bernard Shaw, published by Bruguera in hardback (181 pages, in Spanish).
The phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet: to turn Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, into a lady of high society just by teaching her to speak correctly. Through ironic dialogue, the play satirises class differences and shows how language conditions identity and opportunity.
The play is inspired by Ovid's myth of Pygmalion; this edition includes a translation by Julio Broutá.
For students of literature and theatre, as well as for those seeking classics of the British stage.
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and was awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.
