Pygmalion
World Classics, Unabridged
Autor*in: Shaw, Bernard
Jahr: 2016
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 94 S.
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- Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittleâ€"'an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers'â€"for Mrs Patrick Campbell, with whom he had a passionate but unconsummated affair. From the outset the play was a sensational success, although Shaw, irritated by its popularity at the expense of his artistic intentions, dismissed it as a potboiler. The Pygmalion of legend falls in love with his perfect female statue and persuades Venus to bring her to life so that he can marry her. But Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale to give it a feminist slant: while Higgins teaches Eliza to speak and act like a duchess, she also asserts her independence, adamantly refusing to be his creation.
Titelinformationen
Titel: Pygmalion
Autor*in: Shaw, Bernard
Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
ISBN: 9789386834744
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Dramen
Format: ePub
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage