Bernard Shaw
2) Pygmalion
Author
Language
English
Description
In George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion a phonetician believes the power of speech is such that he can introduce a Cockney flower girl to polite society after careful language and etiquette training, and no one will discern her true roots. The professor and the flower girl grown close, but after her successful debut she rejects the professor and his overbearing ways for a poor gentleman.
The most famous adaptation of the play is the 1964
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Series
Riverside editions volume B71
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1965]
Physical Desc
xiv, 455 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English