George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Pygmalion
Buch
- Alma Books Ltd, 07/2021
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- ISBN-13: 9781847498595
- Bestellnummer: 10299783
- Umfang: 144 Seiten
- Gewicht: 148 g
- Maße: 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.7.2021
Klappentext
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.