Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaws feminist views. In Shaws 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 under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. Included in this volume is Shaws preface, as well as his sequel written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventionally romantic ending.
Informacje dodatkowe o Pygmalion:
Wydawnictwo: angielskie
Data wydania: b.d
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN:
978-0-14-143950-1
Liczba stron: 118
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