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.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 176
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780141439501
ISBN 10: 0141439505