Pygmalion - Alma Classics Evergreens

When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator - and the scene is set for a play that questions the class system, social appearances and the role of women in society. Universally regarded as Shaw's most successful work, Pygmalion - here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 - has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth's undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.

ISBN:	9781847498595
Publisher:	Alma Books COMMIS
Imprint:	Alma Classics
Published date:	15 Jul 2021
DEWEY:	822.912
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	155
Weight:	150g
Height:	128mm
Width:	198mm
Spine width:	18mm

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