Pygmalion (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)

Pygmalion (Illustrated Edition) is Shaw's incisive comedy of manners in which phonetics professor Henry Higgins wagers that he can remake Eliza Doolittle, a Covent Garden flower seller, into a lady of society through speech and deportment. Written with dazzling verbal precision, the play fuses classical myth, modern realism, and Edwardian social satire. Its illustrations sharpen the theatricality ...