Pygmalion
Edition: 1st Pocket Books printing (11)
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 1973 07
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780671704964
Copyright date: 1973
Subjects: Plays / Drama; Plays; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Performing Arts / General
First sentence: THE DAUGHTER [in the space between the central pillars, close to the one on her left] I'm getting chilled to the bone.
Description: When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, it seemed unlikely that his little play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time, My Fair Lady, and a motion picture that captured numerous Academy Awards. Yet such popularity should not have been surprising since succeeding generations of readers and playgoers find continual relevance in the story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society. The extraordinary wit of the master dramatist of the twentieth century has not lost its sharp edge as it cuts away at the artificiality of class distinctions and the callousness of indifference to human worth.
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