Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Digireads.com
ISBN: 9781420954647
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
First performed in 1913, "Pygmalion" is George Bernard's Shaw's play regarding two scholars of phonetics, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, trying to test their theories on an unsuspecting flower girl. When Higgins boasts he could pass anyone off as a lord or lady simply by teaching them to speak right, Pickering wagers that he can't and offers to pay for the speech lessons of Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl. Eliza accepts the offer for speech lessons because she wants to lose her Cockney accent so she can get a job in a flower shop. A satire of the superficiality of distinctions between social classes, "Pygmalion" is one of Shaw's most famous comedies, the subject of numerous stage productions. Forever immortalized by the multiple Academy award-winning motion picture "My Fair Lady," this play is sure to endure as a dramatic classic for years to come. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes the illustrations by May Wilson Preston which appeared in the first serialized American edition.
Pygmalion (Illustrated by May Wilson Preston)
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Digireads.com
ISBN: 9781420954647
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
First performed in 1913, "Pygmalion" is George Bernard's Shaw's play regarding two scholars of phonetics, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, trying to test their theories on an unsuspecting flower girl. When Higgins boasts he could pass anyone off as a lord or lady simply by teaching them to speak right, Pickering wagers that he can't and offers to pay for the speech lessons of Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl. Eliza accepts the offer for speech lessons because she wants to lose her Cockney accent so she can get a job in a flower shop. A satire of the superficiality of distinctions between social classes, "Pygmalion" is one of Shaw's most famous comedies, the subject of numerous stage productions. Forever immortalized by the multiple Academy award-winning motion picture "My Fair Lady," this play is sure to endure as a dramatic classic for years to come. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes the illustrations by May Wilson Preston which appeared in the first serialized American edition.
Publisher: Digireads.com
ISBN: 9781420954647
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
First performed in 1913, "Pygmalion" is George Bernard's Shaw's play regarding two scholars of phonetics, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, trying to test their theories on an unsuspecting flower girl. When Higgins boasts he could pass anyone off as a lord or lady simply by teaching them to speak right, Pickering wagers that he can't and offers to pay for the speech lessons of Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl. Eliza accepts the offer for speech lessons because she wants to lose her Cockney accent so she can get a job in a flower shop. A satire of the superficiality of distinctions between social classes, "Pygmalion" is one of Shaw's most famous comedies, the subject of numerous stage productions. Forever immortalized by the multiple Academy award-winning motion picture "My Fair Lady," this play is sure to endure as a dramatic classic for years to come. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes the illustrations by May Wilson Preston which appeared in the first serialized American edition.
Everybody's Magazine
Branch Library News
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1682
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Harper's Monthly Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Harper's Magazine
Author: Lee Foster Hartman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
Plays in American Periodicals, 1890-1918
Author: Susan Harris Smith
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230605028
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230605028
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.