Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition by George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition by George Bernard Shaw

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Pygmalion – here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 – has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth’s undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.

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Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition by George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myths undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.
The author of over fifty works for the stage – among them Pygmalion and Man and Superman – the Irish playwright and political writer George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was the leading dramatist of his generation and the recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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ISBN 13 9781847498595
ISBN 10 1847498590
Title Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition
Author George Bernard Shaw
Series Alma Classics Evergreens
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Alma Books Ltd
Year published 2021-07-15
Number of pages 144
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.