Pygmalion: Definitive 1941 Version with Footnotes Indicating the Textual Variants (Alma Classics; Evergreens) - Softcover

Shaw, Bernard

 
9781847498595: Pygmalion: Definitive 1941 Version with Footnotes Indicating the Textual Variants (Alma Classics; Evergreens)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847498590 ISBN 13: 9781847498595
Verlag: Alma Classics, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator – and the scene is set for a play that questions the class system, social appearances and the role of women in society.

Universally regarded as Shaw's most successful work, Pygmalion – here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 – has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth's undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The author of over fifty works for the stage – among them Pygmalion and Man and Superman – the Irish playwright and political writer George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was the leading dramatist of his generation and the recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wages with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that, behind her cockney parlance, the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator - and the scene is set for a play that questions the class system, social appearances and the role of women in society.

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Verlag
Alma Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847498590
ISBN 13 
9781847498595
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