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Pygmalion is a play based on on Ovid's tale of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. As they work together Henry grows closer to Eliza, but she eventually rejects his controlling attitude and declares she will marry a different man.
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- Writer: George Bernard Shaw
- Setting: England
- Based on Ovid's Pygmalion.
- Published: 1913
- Premiere Date: October 16, 1913 in Vienna
- Acts: 5
- Adapted into the musical My Fair Lady
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Pygmalion is a play based on on Ovid's tale of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. As they work together Henry grows closer to Eliza, but she eventually rejects his controlling attitude and declares she will marry a different man.
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Video: Pygmalion Act 1 (1 of 2) (Time 07:27)
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View All Pygmalion Questions (2) | Ask a QuestionDr Pygmalion or Dr Frankenstein? (6 Answers)This is certainly a fairy tale come true, very much like the frog turned into a handsome prince when kissed by the princess. Similarly, the ugly woman turned into a ... read morewhy is pygmalion regarded as a problem play and not a romantic play? (2 Answers)It is not a romantic play because there is no physical or emotional relationship between Professor Higgins and Eliza. They have grown dependent upon each other, but not in a ... read more
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Fast Facts
- Writer: George Bernard Shaw
- Setting: England
- Based on Ovid's Pygmalion.
- Published:1913
- Premiere Date: October 16, 1913 in Vienna
- Acts: 5
- Adapted into the musical My Fair Lady
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Pygmalion in TV and Films
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Pygmalion (1938) - Essential Art House - $19.95
George Bernard Shaw wrote the screenplay adaptation of his own beloved stage masterpiece about Professor Henry Higgins's wager to turn a low-class flower vendor into a 'proper lady' and won an Oscar for his efforts. Pygmalion, which would l...
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This play is based on the Greek myth of Pygmalion. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockn...
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Pygmalion (Enriched Classics Series) - $5.95
Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical ScholarshipAn idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.<P>...
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Pygmalion - Criterion Collection - $29.95
Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a "proper lady" in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners based on the play by George Be...
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Pygmalion (Penguin Classics) - $9.00
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 m...
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