As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place.
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Pygmalion
A Romance in Five Acts
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Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle -- 'an East-End dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers' -- for Mrs Patrick Campbell, with whom he had a passionate but unconsummated affair.
From the outset the play was a sensational success, although Shaw was irritated by its popularity at the expense of his artistic intentions and dismissed it a s a potboiler. The Pygmalion of legend falls in love with his perfect female statue and persuades Venus to bring her to life so that he can marry her. But Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale to give it a feminist slant: while Higgins teaches Eliza to speak and act like a duchess, she also asserts her independence, adamantly refusing to be his creation.
A brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system, it is, as Nicholas Greene comments, 'the wonderful inventiveness of its comedy, the force of what it still has to say to us and the light playfulness of tone with which it is said', that ensures that Pygmalion continues to entertain us.
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Aug 10, 2012, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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2009-05, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
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2008, Methuen Drama
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2006 January 30, Icon Reference
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Pygmalion: for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC, and AP Test Preparation
2006 May 5, ICON Group International, Inc.
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2005 August, Pocket Books
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2005, ICON Classics
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2005, ICON Classics
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Pygmalion
2005 June 1, Prestwick House Inc.
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2005, ICON Classics
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2005, ICON Classics
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2005, ICON Classics
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2005, ICON Classics
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Pygmalion: With A Preface And A Sequel
2004 June 30, Kessinger Publishing
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Pygmalion: Romanze in fünf Akten
2004, Suhrkamp
Taschenbuch
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2003, El Universo
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July 2002, Naxos Audiobooks
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts
2000, Penguin Books
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1999 October, Econo-Clad Books
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1998?, Klett
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1974, Penguin Books
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1961, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.
Also contained in:
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Collected Plays with their Prefaces: Volume IV
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Complete Plays with Prefaces: Volume I
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Four Plays by Bernard Shaw
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Plays
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Portable Bernard Shaw
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Pygmalion and Major Barbara
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Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
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Pygmalion and Related Readings
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Pygmalion and Three Other Plays
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Pygmalion with Connections
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Selected Plays
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Selected Plays with Prefaces
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