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Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented on stage in German.
- Bernard Shaw
- 1912
Pygmalion, romance in five acts by George Bernard Shaw, produced in German in 1913 in Vienna. It was performed in England in 1914, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle. The play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pygmalion is a 1912 play by Shaw that explores the English class system and the power of language. It tells the story of a professor who bets he can turn a Cockney flower girl into a lady, but she rejects his advances and marries someone else.
Learn about the plot, characters, and themes of Pygmalion, a satirical play by George Bernard Shaw that explores class, identity, and language. Find study tools, full text, and adaptations of this classic work.
- Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles blowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico of St. Paul’s Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress.
- Next day at 11 a.m. Higgins’s laboratory in Wimpole Street. It is a room on the first floor, looking on the street, and was meant for the drawing-room.
- It is Mrs. Higgins’s at-home day. Nobody has yet arrived. Her drawing-room, in a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows looking on the river; and the ceiling is not so lofty as it would be in an older house of the same pretension.
- The Wimpole Street laboratory. Midnight. Nobody in the room. The clock on the mantelpiece strikes twelve. The fire is not alight: it is a summer night.
A classic play by George Bernard Shaw about a phonetician who bets he can transform a cockney flower girl into a lady. Read the plot, analysis, and notes of Pygmalion on SparkNotes.
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