{"product_id":"9780141439501-pygmalion","title":"Pygmalion","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePygmalion\u003c\/i\u003e both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40947060539489,"sku":"9780141439501","price":8.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32416261.jpg?v=1737274847","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141439501-pygmalion","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}