As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place.
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Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, 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. Adapted into the Oscar-winning musical film My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison in 1964, Pygmalion
This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. Also included in this volume is Shaw's preface, as well as his 'sequel' written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventially romantic ending.
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2018-06-25, Black & White Classics
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Pygmalion
2009-05, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
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Pygmalion
2005 August, Pocket Books
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
1998?, Klett
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
1974, Penguin Books
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Pygmalion
1973-07, Washington Square Press, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- First Pocket Books Printing (6)
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
1961, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.
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Collected Plays with their Prefaces: Volume IV
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Complete Plays with Prefaces: Volume I
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Four Plays by Bernard Shaw
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Portable Bernard Shaw
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Pygmalion and Major Barbara
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Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
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Pygmalion and Related Readings
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Pygmalion and Three Other Plays
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Pygmalion with Connections
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Selected Plays with Prefaces
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