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Pygmalion (My Fair Lady): A Play in Five Acts
Pygmalion A Play in Five Acts - My Fair Lady Author:George Bernard Shaw "Pygmalion" (1912) is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. 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 imp... more »eccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a comment on women's independence, packaged as a romantic comedy.« less