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Pygmalion
Overview
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. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781545431696
- ISBN-10: 1545431698
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: April 2017
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.19 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.29 pounds
- Page Count: 90
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