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Pygmalion : a romance in five acts : definitive text / George Bernard Shaw ; edited by L.W. Conolly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- Series:
- New mermaids
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speech and social status--Drama.
- Speech and social status.
- Linguistics teachers.
- Linguistics teachers--Drama.
- Social classes--Drama.
- Social classes.
- London (England)--Drama.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- liv, 154 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Methuen Drama, 2008.
- Summary:
- Ever since Pygmalion opened in London in April 1914 it has proved a very controversial play, from the (then) shocking language, to arguments about its correct ending. Critical interpretations have been similarly disputatious, encompassing views of the transformation of the impoverished Eliza Doolittle by phonetics expert Henry Higgins as either a story of economic and social liberation, or an example of the perpetuation of male control and self-interest. With subsequent film and musical adaptations and many stage revivals, Pygmalion remains one of Shaw's most engaging, provocative, and accessible plays.
- This new edition of Pygmalion includes Shaw's definitive text, with both Preface and Sequel, and provides the most comprehensive scholarly treatment of the play to date, containing: a substantial introduction with biographical information on Shaw, detailed discussion of the genesis and sources of the play, varying interpretations and a lengthy international stage history, textual notes on each page explaining language, allusions, and staging, Appendices with Shaw's discarded scenes for the play, the British Censor's 1914 report, and texts of all stage and film endings of Pygmalion.
- Contents:
- Bernard Shaw: A Chronology viii
- The Genesis and Composition of Pygmalion xx
- Opening Night, 11 April 1914 xxii
- The Ending(s) of Pygmalion xxv
- Which Pygmalion? xxix
- Sources and Influences xxxi
- An 'Intensely and Deliberately Didactic' Play xxxiv
- Shaw's Nora xxxiv
- Pygmalion-Higgins xxxvii
- The 'Undeserving Poor' - and Rich xliii
- The Stage History of Pygmalion xlv
- A Note on Places and Money in Pygmalion li
- Pygmalion 1
- The Persons of the Play 7
- The Scenes of the Play 7
- Note for Technicians 8
- The Text 9
- Sequel 129
- Appendix I Discarded Scenes 141
- Appendix II The Censor's Report on Pygmalion 144
- Appendix III The Endings of Pygmalion 146.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page liii-liv).
- ISBN:
- 9780713679977
- 0713679972
- OCLC:
- 190777250
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