Pygmalion
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Pygmalion
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The work Pygmalion represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Pygmalion
- Statement of responsibility
- George Bernard Shaw
- Subject
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- Comedy plays
- Comedy plays
- Drama
- Electronic books
- England -- London
- Flower vending
- Flower vending -- Drama
- Linguistics teachers
- Linguistics teachers -- Drama
- London (England) -- Drama
- Comedies
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- Social classes
- Social classes -- Drama
- Speech and social status
- Speech and social status -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion a phonetician believes the power of speech is such that he can introduce a Cockney flower girl to polite society after careful language and etiquette training, and no one will discern her true roots. The professor and the flower girl grown close, but after her successful debut she rejects the professor and his overbearing ways for a poor gentleman. The most famous adaptation of the play is the 1964 film My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- Dewey number
- 822/.912
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR5363
- LC item number
- .P8 2012eb
- Literary form
- dramas
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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