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Language
English
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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 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...
3) Pygmailon
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Eliza Doolittle makes a living by selling flowers on the streets of Longdon. She is poor, dirty and uneducated, with little hope for a better life.
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