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George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, inspired by the ancient myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, tells the story of Henry Higgins, a phonetics professor, who takes the street‑wise flower girl Eliza Doolittle under his wing and teaches her the speech and manners of an upper‑class English lady. The play examines the power of language to alter social status and the dynamics of transformation between the working‑class and the elite. In 1956 it was adapted into the hit musical My Fair Lady, which further popularised the themes of speech, romance, and class mobility.
First publish date: 1975
Genre: Drama & Plays/Comedy Plays
Authors: George Bernard Shaw
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