Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle--'an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers'--for Mrs Patrick Campbell, with whom he had a passionate but unconsummated affair. From the outset the play was a sensational success, although Shaw, irritated by its popularity at the expense of his artistic intentions, dismissed it as a potboiler. The Pygmalion of legend falls in love with his perfect female statue and persuades Venus to bring her to life so that he can marry her. But Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale to give it a feminist slant: while Higgins teaches Eliza to speak and act like a duchess, she also asserts her independence, adamantly refusing to be his creation.

Medie	Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet	25. januar 2017
ISBN13	9789386019974
Forlag	Alpha Edition
Antal sider	96
Mål	140 × 216 × 6 mm · 131 g
Sprog	Engelsk

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