Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

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  • 84 pages
  • Year: 1913
  • ~9h 16m
  • ★★★★★

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An arrogant upper-class professor bets a colleague he can transform a simple flower girl into a "Duchess" in just six months.

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Pygmalion is a 5-act play by George Bernard Shaw. It was written in 1912 and first produced in 1913. The plot revolves around Professor Henry Higgins' bet with a colleague over whether he can transform a low-class flower girl, Liza Doolittle, into the equivalent of a Duchess in just 6 months. Pygmalion was a Greek mythological figure who fell in love with a sculpture he had carved and was a popular theme in Victorian drama.

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