Pygmalion
Douban
ISBN: 9780141439501
author:
George Bernard Shaw
publishing house:
Penguin Classics
publication date: 2003
-2
series: Penguin Classics
price: GBP 8.99
number of pages: 144
overview
Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. First produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.
The Definitive Text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence
With an Introduction by Nicholas Grene