(P/B) PYGMALION

Παρουσίαση

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. (from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Chronology of the Life and Times of Bernard Shaw
Introduction
Principal Works of Bernard Shaw
PREFACE
Pygmalion