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2) Pygmalion
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English
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An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.
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Language
English
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In this deliciously zany dark comedy, three misfit high school students form an unconventional debate club, complete with a musical version of The Crucible, an unusual podcast, and a ploy to take down the corrupt drama teacher. Together, Diwata, Solomon, and Howie uncover real truths amid fantasy in this incisive play about sexuality, loneliness, and identity.
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Penguin books volume PL2
Enriched classics
Signet classic volume CE 2476
Bernard Shaw library
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Enriched classics
Signet classic volume CE 2476
Bernard Shaw library
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English
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A 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....
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