- Editorial:
- PENGUIN BOOKS (UK)
- Año de edición:
- 2003
- Materia
- Theatre/plays
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-143950-1
- Páginas:
- 144
- Encuadernación:
- Rústica
PYGMALION (2003)
SHAW, BERNARD
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own.