01693nam 22003853u 450 991015550530332120230803040918.01-304-46845-3(CKB)3710000000508388(EBL)1669304(Exl-AI)993710000000508388(EXLCZ)99371000000050838820151123d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPygmalionSheba Blake Publishing20131 online resource (303 p.)Description based upon print version of record. George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts (1912) is one of greatest comic masterpieces of the 20th century. It's hard now to imagine how a play about a phonetics expert who decides to convert an uneducated Cockney flower girl into a high society lady would have been controversial. It does take jabs at the British social hierarchy and women's independence, all packaged up as a neat comic play. Shaw originally staged Pygmalion as a translation in Vienna, hoping to generate a buzz for his work outside the purview of British critics. When the play was a hit, English audiences and crSocial classes in literatureGenerated by AIWomen's rights in literatureGenerated by AISocial classes in literatureWomen's rights in literatureShaw George Bernard322209AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910155505303321Pygmalion179726UNINA