Pygmalion – Buch gebraucht kaufen

0141439505

(ISBN-13: 9780141439501)

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114 g

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Englisch

Shaw's exposé of the British class system - featuring the enduring characters of Professor Henry Higgins and the "gutter-snipe" Eliza Doolittle he vows to turn into a lady - remains his most popular play.

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Show's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is
that his' creation' has a mind of her own.

This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene,
discussing the language and politics of the play. Also included in this volume is Show's preface, as well as his' sequel' written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventionally romantic ending.

Englische Belletristik / Dramatik, Drehbuch, Irische Belletristik / Dramatik, Drehbuch, Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

03.03.2011

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