Like most of Shaw’s work, Pygmalion wins over audiences with wit, a taut morality, and an innate understanding of human relationships. The scene in which Eliza appears in high society with the correct accent but no notion of polite conversation is considered one of the funniest in English drama. Pygmalion follows the adventures of phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he attempts to transform cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady. Pygmalion persists as his best-loved play, one made into both a classic film-which won Shaw an Academy Award for best screenplay-and the perennially popular musical My Fair Lady. Hailed as “a Tolstoy with jokes” by one critic, George Bernard Shaw was the most significant British playwright since the seventeenth century. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical, historical, and literary-to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Īll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications some include illustrations of historical interest. Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
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