Arms and the Man is a play by George Bernard Shaw that was first performed in 1894. The play tells the story of a young man named Bluntschli who is fighting in the Serbo-Bulgarian War. He flees to Switzerland and meets a woman named Raina. Bluntschli reveals that he was not really fighting in the … Read more
Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1913. The play is a comedy of manners, and tells the story of Professor Henry Higgins, who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can turn Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, into a duchess in six months. Pygmalion was made into … Read more
Pygmalion, written by George Bernard Shaw, is set in London sometime after the Victorian era. Pygmalion tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor who studies phonetics and how to change spoken language. Pygmalion begins with an explanation of how speech changes across time (in the play’s cast, across class) and then focuses on an … Read more
Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1912, and Pygmalion is the title of the book variant. Pygmalion was later turned into a movie, titled My Fair Lady. Pygmalion tells the story of a phonetics professor who bets other people that he can turn someone from lower class to upper class in … Read more