Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
George Bernard Shaw
Hardcover
(Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, March 15, 1998)
Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain-first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.