Pygmalion : A Romance in Five Acts

by Shaw, George Bernard; Grene, Nicholas; Laurence, Dan H.

• ISBN13: 9780141439501
• ISBN10: 0141439505
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780140437898, 9780140450224
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-04
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

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 most popular plays. The Definitive Text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence With an Introduction by Nicholas Grene

Author Biography

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was one of the most prolific writers of the modern theater. He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Dan H. Laurence edited many of Shaw's works and is the series editor for the works of Shaw in Penguin Classics.

Nicholas Grene is professor of English literature at Trinity College in Dublin.

Table of Contents

Chronology of the Life and Times of Bernard Shaw	vii
Introduction	xiii
Principal Works of Bernard Shaw	xix
Preface	3	(6)
Pygmalion	9