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Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition
Definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants
Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition
Definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants
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Description
When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wages 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 for the stage, Pygmalion – here presented in its original 1916 version, with a wealth of extra material, including the author's subsequent revisions and additions to the text – has spawned a great number of screen adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth's undiminishing ability to find new incarnations in modern life.
Product details
| Published | 31 Aug 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 160 |
| ISBN | 9781847498595 |
| Imprint | Alma Classics |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Series | Alma Classics Evergreens |
| Publisher | Alma Books |
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