Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts Paperback - 2003
by George Bernard Shaw; Introduction by Nicholas Grene; Dan H. Laurence (Editor)
Shaw's expos of the British class system--featuring the enduring characters of Professor Henry Higgins and the "gutter-snipe" Eliza Doolittle he vows to turn into a lady--remains his most popular play. Includes Shaw's Preface and "sequel."
Summary
Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle—'an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers'—for Mrs Patrick Campbell, with whom he had a passionate but unconsummated affair. From the outset the play was a sensational success, although Shaw, irritated by its popularity at the expense of his artistic intentions, dismissed it as a potboiler. The Pygmalion of legend falls in love with his perfect female statue and persuades Venus to bring her to life so that he can marry her. But Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale to give it a feminist slant: while Higgins teaches Eliza to speak and act like a duchess, she also asserts her independence, adamantly refusing to be his creation.
A brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system, it is, as Nicholas Grene comments in his Introduction, 'the wonderful inventiveness of its comedy, the force of what it still has to say to us, and the light playfulness of tone with which it is said', that ensures that Pygmalion continues to entertain us.
First line
London at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain.
Details
- Title Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
- Author George Bernard Shaw; Introduction by Nicholas Grene; Dan H. Laurence (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-02-04
- ISBN 9780141439501 / 0141439505
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.12 x 0.36 in (19.76 x 13.00 x 0.91 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: British
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Library of Congress subjects London (England), Man-woman relationships
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.912
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