Pygmalion

• Autore: Shaw George Bernard
• Pubblicazione: Sheba Blake Publishing, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Social classes in literature; Women's rights in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 cr
• Titolo autorizzato: Pygmalion
• ISBN: 1-304-46845-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910155505303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II