Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts (Penguin Plays & Screenplays)

by George Bernard Shaw

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Canonical Title

Pygmalion

Original publication date

1912

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People/Characters

Henry Higgins

Colonel Pickering

Eliza Doolittle

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First words

The Daughter: I'm getting chilled to the bone.

Last words

Freddy: Ha ha ha ha ha ! ! ! ! !

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 014048003X, Paperback)

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. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain-first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.

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