by George Bernard Shaw · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140437898
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Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw that tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a lower-class flower girl, and Henry Higgins, a phonetics professor who bets that he can transform Eliza into a high society lady by teaching her to speak correctly. Through diction and manners lessons, Eliza undergoes a remarkable transformation, but also faces challenges of identity and social class. The play explores themes of language, class, gender, and the search for self-identity.
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.
