Pygmalion (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Curated Collection Publishing, 2026
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Paperback. George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is a brilliant comedy of language, class, identity, and the assumptions people make about one another.Eliza Doolittle is a poor London flower seller whose strong Cockney accent immediately marks her social position. Professor Henry Higgins, a brilliant but arrogant expert in phonetics, boasts that by changing the way Eliza speaks, he could pass her off as a duchess. What begins as an experiment in pronunciation soon becomes something far more complicated.Under Higgins's relentless instruction, Eliza learns the speech, manners, and behavior expected of fashionable society. Her astonishing success appears to prove Higgins's theory: change the voice, and society will change its judgment. But once the experiment is complete, Eliza is left facing a question Higgins has barely considered. If she no longer belongs to the world she came from, what place does she have in the one he has taught her to enter?Through Eliza's struggle for independence and Higgins's refusal to recognize the emotional consequences of his experiment, Shaw turns a comic premise into a sharp examination of social class, education, gender, power, and personal dignity. The play asks whether identity is something society assigns through accent, clothing, and manners-or something an individual has the right to define for herself.Filled with sparkling dialogue, memorable characters, and Shaw's characteristic wit, Pygmalion challenges the idea that refinement and worth are the same thing. Eliza's journey is not simply one of social transformation, but of growing self-awareness as she discovers that learning how to speak differently does not mean surrendering her independence to the man who taught her.First performed in 1913, Pygmalion remains one of Shaw's most celebrated plays and the inspiration for the musical My Fair Lady. More than a century later, its questions about accent, opportunity, social judgment, and the power of language remain strikingly relevant.For readers of classic literature, social comedy, drama, and stories of transformation and self-determination, Pygmalion offers a witty and provocative reminder that changing how the world sees a person is not the same as determining who that person will become. A witty social satire explores whether a mere change in speech can elevate a commoner to high society, or if true identity lies far beneath the surface of polished manners. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798868971334
- Título
- Pygmalion (Paperback)
- Autor
- George Bernard Shaw
- Editorial
- Curated Collection Publishing
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798868971334
George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is a brilliant comedy of language, class, identity, and the assumptions people make about one another.
Eliza Doolittle is a poor London flower seller whose strong Cockney accent immediately marks her social position. Professor Henry Higgins, a brilliant but arrogant expert in phonetics, boasts that by changing the way Eliza speaks, he could pass her off as a duchess. What begins as an experiment in pronunciation soon becomes something far more complicated.
Under Higgins's relentless instruction, Eliza learns the speech, manners, and behavior expected of fashionable society. Her astonishing success appears to prove Higgins's theory: change the voice, and society will change its judgment. But once the experiment is complete, Eliza is left facing a question Higgins has barely considered. If she no longer belongs to the world she came from, what place does she have in the one he has taught her to enter?
Through Eliza's struggle for independence and Higgins's refusal to recognize the emotional consequences of his experiment, Shaw turns a comic premise into a sharp examination of social class, education, gender, power, and personal dignity. The play asks whether identity is something society assigns through accent, clothing, and manners-or something an individual has the right to define for herself.
Filled with sparkling dialogue, memorable characters, and Shaw's characteristic wit, Pygmalion challenges the idea that refinement and worth are the same thing. Eliza's journey is not simply one of social transformation, but of growing self-awareness as she discovers that learning how to speak differently does not mean surrendering her independence to the man who taught her.
First performed in 1913, Pygmalion remains one of Shaw's most celebrated plays and the inspiration for the musical My Fair Lady. More than a century later, its questions about accent, opportunity, social judgment, and the power of language remain strikingly relevant.
For readers of classic literature, social comedy, drama, and stories of transformation and self-determination, Pygmalion offers a witty and provocative reminder that changing how the world sees a person is not the same as determining who that person will become.
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