num_pages: 136
description: Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain-first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.
language: English
title: Pygmalion
titlecomplete: Pygmalion
characters: Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Mrs. Pearce, Clara Eynsford-Hill, Alfred P. Doolittle, Colonel Pickering, Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, British Literature, Plays, Humor, School, Romance, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 101139
places: United Kingdom, London, England, England
publisher: Penguin Classics