Pygmalion - Grand Format

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Nicholas Grene

(Préfacier)

,

Dan Laurence

(Directeur scientifique)

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Résumé

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society.
The one thing he overlooks is that his "creation" has a mind of her own.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    05/02/2003
  • Editeur
  • Collection
  • ISBN
    0-14-143950-5
  • EAN
    9780141439501
  • Format
    Grand Format
  • Présentation
    Broché
  • Nb. de pages
    122 pages
  • Poids
    0.112 Kg
  • Dimensions
    12,9 cm × 19,8 cm × 0,8 cm

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À propos de l'auteur

George Bernard Shaw

Biographie de George Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. Although essentially shy, he created the persona of G.B.S., the showman, satirist, controversialist, critic, pundit, wit, intellectual buffoon and dramatist. Commentators brought a new adjective into English : Shavian, a term used to embody all his brilliant qualities. After his arrival in London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker.
He wrote on many social aspects of the day : on Common Sense about the War (1914), How to Settle the Irish Question (1917) and The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1918). He undertook his own education at the British Museum and consequently became keenly interested in cultural subjects. Thus his prolific output included music, art and theatre reviews, which were collected into several volumes, such as Music In London 189o-1894 (3 vols., 1931) ; Pen Portraits and Reviews (1931) ; and Our Theatres in the Nineties (13 vols., 1931).
He also wrote five novels, including Cashel Byron's Profession (published by Penguin), and a collection of shorter works issued as A Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales (also in Penguin). Shaw conducted a strong attack on the London Theatre and was closely associated with the intellectual revival of British Theatre. His many plays (the full canon runs to 51) fall into several categories : "Plays Pleasant" ; "Plays Unpleasant" ; "Plays for Puritans" ; political plays ; chronicle plays ; "metabiological Pentateuch" (Back to Methuselah) in five plays ; extravaganzas ; romances ; and fables.
He died in 1950. Nicholas Grene was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Cambridge. He is now Professor of English Literature at Trinity College. His books include Synge : A Critical Study of the Plays (1975), Bernard Shaw : A Critical View (1984), and The Politics of Irish Drama (1999). Dan H. Laurence, editor of Shaw's Collected Letters, his Collected Plays with their Prefaces, Shaw's Music and (with Daniel Leary) The Complete Prefaces, was Literary Adviser to the Shaw Estate until his retirement in 199o.
He is Series Editor for the works of Shaw in Penguin.

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