Bernard Shaw
2) Pygmalion
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English
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"When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could reach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddles with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own"--
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English
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"Disgusted and bored by the trend for titillation and sham on the London stage, Shaw wrote these plays both to educate and entertain his audiences. In The Devil's Disciple, a clergyman turned soldier and the Shavian ideal of a Puritan hero - 'like all genuinely religious men, a reprobate and an outcast' - willingly risks his life for a stranger. Caesar and Cleopatra, a brilliant satire on contemporary Britain, contains an utterly unexpected portrait...
