{"product_id":"george-bernard-shaw-pygmalion-2021-paperback","title":"George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion [2021] paperback","description":"When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator - and the scene is set for a play that questions the class system, social appearances and the role of women in society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUniversally regarded as Shaw's most successful work, Pygmalion - here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 - has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth's undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.","brand":"Shaw, George Bernard","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46626845950291,"sku":"9781847498595","price":9.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/shaw-george-bernard-george-bernard-shaw-pygmalion-2021-paperback-9781847498595-50769885790547.jpg?v=1684427378","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/george-bernard-shaw-pygmalion-2021-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}