Pygmalion

Phantasie, Witz, Überraschung, Provokation und ernsthafte Argumentation zeichnen Shaws Stücke aus. Pygmalion wurde 1912 geschrieben, war bereits in seiner Erstaufführung ein immenser Erfolg, und als Musical My Fair Lady ist es auch heute noch sehr beliebt.

Informationen zum Autor George Bernard Shaw Klappentext Shaw's expos 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. Includes Shaw's Preface and "sequel." Zusammenfassung Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence.

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George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw's expos 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. Includes Shaw's Preface and "sequel."

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Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence.