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George Bernard Shaw (Dublino, 1856 – Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire 1950). Commediografo, narratore e saggista, nasce da famiglia protestante irlandese e, dopo la separazione dei genitori, a vent’anni raggiunge a Londra la madre e cerca la sua strada. Si avvicina al Fabianesimo, movimento socialista che influenzò molto gli intellettuali inglesi dell’epoca, e a partire dal 1890 inizia la sua attività di drammaturgo realizzando opere indimenticabili come Androclo e il leone (1913), Pigmalione (1914), Casa Cuorinfranto (1920). Nel 1925 riceve il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, coronamento della sua carriera artistica. Una frase attribuita a Shaw sarà impiegata da Robert Kennedy nel 1968 durante la sua campagna elettorale: «Alcuni uomini vedono le cose così come sono e dicono: “Perché?”. Io sogno le cose come non sono mai state e dico: “Perché no?”».
Pygmalion. E-book. Formato Mobipocket ebook
EBOOK   9789176371367

Pygmalion. E-book. Formato Mobipocket George Bernard Shaw   -  Wisehouse Classics, 2019  - 

PYGMALION is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and the film of that name.

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