Pygmalion
Alma Books
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 Tanıtım Bülteninden
