Pygmalion
Bernard Shaw
1856 – 1950
ENPublic Domain
Summary
"Pygmalion" by Bernard Shaw is a play written in 1912. When phonetics professor Henry Higgins boasts he can transform a Cockney flower girl into a duchess simply by teaching her proper speech, Colonel Pickering takes the bet. Eliza Doolittle arrives at Higgins's door seeking lessons to improve her prospects, setting in motion a social experiment that will test class boundaries and personal transformation. This witty comedy became Shaw's most popular work, later inspiring the musical "My Fair Lady." (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Subjects
- Comedy plays
- Flower vending — Drama
- Linguistics teachers — Drama
- London (England) — Drama
- Social classes — Drama
- Speech and social status — Drama