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020			_a9780141439501 (pbk.)
082	0	4	_a822.912 _221 _bSBP
100	1		_aShaw, Bernard, _d1856-1950 _948192
245	1	0	_aPygmalion : _ba romance in five acts / _cBernard Shaw ; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence ; introduction by Nicholas Grene.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c2003.
300			_axx, 122 p. ; _c20 cm.
490	1		_aPenguin classics
505	0		_aChronology of the life and times of Bernard Shaw -- Introduction -- Principal works of Bernard Shaw -- Preface -- Pygmalion.
520			_aPygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. Also included in this volume is Shaw's preface, as well as his 'sequel' written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventionally romantic ending.
650		0	_aMan-woman relationships _vDrama _948193
650		0	_aSpeech and social status _vDrama _948194
650		0	_aSocial classes _vDrama _948195
651		0	_aLondon (England) _vDrama _948196
830		0	_aPenguin classics _948197
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