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Pygmalion / by George Bernard Shaw.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
822 SHAW	Adult Non Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9789176372098 (paperback)
Name	Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 author.
Title	Pygmalion / by George Bernard Shaw.
Published	Sweden : Wisehouse Classics, [2016]
Published	©2016
Description	99 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary	Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.
Subjects	English drama -- 20th century
	Man-woman relationships -- Drama
	Speech and social status -- Drama
	Social classes -- Drama
	London (England) -- Drama
Genre	Drama
Series	Wisehouse classics
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Drama . English drama -- 20th century . London (England) -- Drama . Man-woman relationships -- Drama . Social classes -- Drama . Speech and social status -- Drama . See Also: Acting . Children's plays . Comedy . English drama . Historical drama . Literature . Opera . Radio plays . Tragedy . Authors: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 . Series: Wisehouse classics .