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050 4 _aPR5363
_b.P8 2003
092 _aF Shaw
100 1 _aShaw, Bernard,
_d1856-1950.
_96356906
245 1 0 _aPygmalion :
_ba romance in five acts /
_cBernard Shaw ; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence ; introduction by Nicholas Grene.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bPenguin Books,
_c2003.
264 _a London ; New York :
_bPenguin Books,
_c2000.
300 _axx, 122 pages ;
_c20 cm.
336 _atext
337 _aunmediated
338 _avolume
490 1 _aPenguin classics.
505 0 _aChronology of the life and times of Bernard Shaw -- Introduction -- Principal works of Bernard Shaw -- Preface -- Pygmalion.
520 _aPygmalion 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. This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. Also included in this volume is Shaw's preface, as well as his 'sequel' written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventionally romantic ending.
650 0 _aMan-woman relationships
_vDrama.
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650 0 _aSpeech and social status
_vDrama.
_96356907
650 0 _aSocial classes
_vDrama.
_96356908
651 0 _aLondon (England)
_vDrama.
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655 7 _aDrama.
_2fast
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830 0 _aPenguin classics.
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