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Pygmalion : a romance in five acts, Bernard Shaw ; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence ; introduction by Nicholas Grene
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- Summary
- 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. 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xx, 122 pages
- Contents
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- Chronology of the life and times of Bernard Shaw
- Introduction
- Principal works of Bernard Shaw
- Preface
- Pygmalion
- Isbn
- 9780141439501
- Label
- Pygmalion : a romance in five acts
- Title
- Pygmalion
- Title remainder
- a romance in five acts
- Statement of responsibility
- Bernard Shaw ; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence ; introduction by Nicholas Grene
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. 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
- Cataloging source
- JRS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1856-1950
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shaw, Bernard
- Dewey number
- 822/.912
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR5363
- LC item number
- .P8 2003
- Literary form
- dramas
- Series statement
- Penguin classics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Man-woman relationships
- Speech and social status
- London (England)
- Social classes
- Man-woman relationships
- Social classes
- Speech and social status
- England
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- Pygmalion : a romance in five acts, Bernard Shaw ; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence ; introduction by Nicholas Grene
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Chronology of the life and times of Bernard Shaw -- Introduction -- Principal works of Bernard Shaw -- Preface -- Pygmalion
- Control code
- ocm51934991
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xx, 122 pages
- Isbn
- 9780141439501
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- Chronology of the life and times of Bernard Shaw -- Introduction -- Principal works of Bernard Shaw -- Preface -- Pygmalion
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- ocm51934991
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- 20 cm.
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- xx, 122 pages
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