Pygmalion
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Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence. ''Yes, you squashed cabbage le...
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Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence. ''Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba''Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor 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.With an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
Udgave
1
ISBN
9780141439501
Sprog
Engelsk
Originalsprog
dan
Sider
144
Udgivelsesdato
30-01-2003
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1102134
EAN nr.
9780141439501
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
9
Bredde (mm)
196
Længde (mm)
129
Vægt (g)
112