Books with title Pygmalion:

In the 19th century, Britain faced many challenges due to its class based society, with often nothing but people's speech patterns being enough to keep them rooted in their own static area of society from which it was hard to escape.In this famous George Bernard Shaw play, Henry Higgins, a renowned speech therapist and expert, meets Liza Doolittle, a lowerclass girl with one of the most distorted English accents he had ever heard. As part of a wager, Higgins challenges himself to teach Liza how to speak properly, and even integrate her into higher society without anyone being ableto tell that she's actually a lowerclass individual.While Higgins' progress seems to be slow at first, Liza proves to be up to the challenge, although things quickly get complicated when the two main protagonists end up falling for each other, and their relationship becomes bitter sweet – the kind of love/hate relationship you'd rarely expect to work.Pygmalion is considered to be one of Bernard Shaw's most successful works, beautifully mixing comedy with romance, the possibility of overcoming one's personal limitations, the complex facets of the British social norms and boundaries of the time, as well as the emphasis on artificiality when it comes to describing many of the ironic traits associated with the upper classes.The title, however, leans more toward bringing the focus onto the romantic relationship between Higgins and Liza, hinting at Higgins' predicament, with Pygmalion being a Greek artist who became infatuated with his own sculpture.Many would likely be more acquainted with the movie version of Bernard Shaw's remarkable work – My Fair Lady – which gained great recognition in the mid-1960s, having won multiple Academy awards.

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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts (1912) is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a comment on women's independence, packaged as a romantic comedy.

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.

When George Bernard Shaw wrote "Pygmalion" over a century ago, it seemed unlikely that his little play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time, "My Fair La-dy," and a motion picture that captured numerous Academy Awards. Yet such popularity should not have been surprising since succeeding generations of readers and playgoers find continual relevance in the story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society. The extraordinary wit of the master dramatist of the twentieth cen-tury has not lost its sharp edge as it cuts away at the artificially of class distinctions and the cal-lousness of indifference to human worth.

A full cast performance featuring Michael Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Michael Hordern, and Donald Pleasence in Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Available on compact disc. Written in 1912, Pygmalion quickly became a legend in its own time. The characters, situations, and dialogue Bernard Shaw supplies are rich, ebullient, and unmatched in wit as the infamous Henry Higgins prepares to "make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe."Thus begins this classic tale as Shaw pokes fun at smugness and priggish conventionality. Who can forget professor Henry Higgins with his passionate interest in the science of phonetics and the improvement of British speech, or of course, poor Eliza Doolittle, who is one of the great heroines of the 20th century?Get ready to enjoy the greatest Shaw romp of them all as Higgins prepares to transform a common flower girl into a creature "the king of England would accept as royalty."