Pygmalion
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Product Information
| ISBN | 9780141439501 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publishing Date | 30/01/2003 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.16 |
| Tax | €0.79 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €13.95 |
| Availability | 11 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
''Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba''
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 polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ''creation'' has a mind of her own.
With an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE