Pygmalion is a verbose, satirical, romantic play, distributed over 5 Acts, with no scenes! The play opens with the following preparatory lines-“It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen”I am resistant to above lines, as I am blessed with great English friends, who definitely don’t despise me, but help me to become a better version of m...

Pygmalion: def. n. A sculptor in Greek mythology who created a sculpture so beautiful that he fell in love with her.In this rendition of an age old story, professor of linguistics Henry Higgins plucks a flower girl off the streets so as to teach her proper diction and middle class manners. After befriending Colonel Pickerson, they wager that by the end of the lessons, the flower girl Eliza Doolittle, will be just as well-mannered as a duchess.Higgins: I’m an eccentric professor of linguistics. A...

3.5 stars"… you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul."Even if you are not already familiar with George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, I’m sure you are likely acquainted with either the on-stage musical version or movie adaptation titled My Fair Lady. I have fond memories of my high school’s producti...

Reposting in honor of George Bernard Shaw's birthday, July 26. I am writing this review to honor my grandmother who recently passed away. I lost track of the number of times we listened to the soundtrack of My Fair Lady either in her car, her apartment, or my house growing up. To me Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins, and Colonel Pickering are as much the actors who played them as they are are the memories I created with my grandmother and great aunt while watching the movie or listening to its time...

A lot of my reading at the moment seems to revolve around the relationship between art and artist, creator and creation.Reading other reviews on "Pygmalion", I realise how strange my approach to it was, and how disappointed I was at first because my expectations were not met. I chose it as part of a reading challenge I set myself a couple of years ago - to read all Nobel Laureates in literature. The title appealed to me, and I was thrilled to explore a modernist's take on the ancient myth of Pyg...

👩 Pygmalion is the Greek sculptor who carves a statue out of ivory, a woman he names Galatea. Falling in love with the statue he prays to Aphrodite to grant Galatea life. The goddess does so and sculptor and creation marry to give the world a Greek mythology HEA, a rare enough gift. Shaw’s spin is to have a Professor of phonetics, Higgins, recreate a woman of the streets and make of her an elegant and refined beauty. But Eliza develops a mind of her own and drops her creator to give her love to...

"Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten,"¹ says G.B.Shaw in the afterword to his famous play.¹By the way, I think this quote should be memorized and repeated on the daily basis by the contemporary authors, especially in the YA genre, who attempt to create female characters. Really. Maybe I can start a campaign encouraging authors' awareness of this quote. Hmmmm...This was one of the first plays I've ever read, an...

Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo! Exceptional linguist Professor Henry Higgins meets gentleman Colonel Pickering and they whimsically set on crazy bet to pass off Eliza, a low class street flower girl, as a respectable royal lady of the high society. Little do they know Eliza has a few talents of her own.This was overall enjoyable, although with some reservations. The best of the play was by far Eliza, and the wildly eccentric Alfred Doolitle, they brought light and laughter whenever they appeared; Pickering...

This was a buddy read with my marvellous new friend Elinor, and we both had a whale of a time reading it!And if you go into it thinking you’re in for just a pleasant rerun of My Fair Lady - for the musical is based on this play - THINK AGAIN.You know, a wonderful author who’s a little younger than I, and who shares my constant cross of Asperger’s Syndrome - her name is Anita Lesko - has written a self-study called When Life Hands you Lemons, Make Lemonade...Well, that’s what Shaw does. He imagin...

This is fun to read out loud in crazy English accents while stomping around your apartment. The neighbors might not like it but screw 'em.