by Bernard Shaw · Penguin Group USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140480030
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«Pygmalion» is the five-act play by George Bernard Shaw, published by Penguin Group USA in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The phonetics professor Henry Higgins bets that he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a lady of high society by teaching her to speak differently. From that experiment, Shaw reinterprets the Pygmalion myth to satirize British classism and reflect on language, identity, and female autonomy, in a comedic vein.
The subtitle is 'A Romance in Five Acts' and the edition belongs to the Penguin Plays collection. It includes Shaw's preface and the continuation he wrote for the 1916 publication.
Work for readers of classic theatre and students of English literature; it is common reading in theatre and literature courses.
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.
