@article{289855,
      recid = {289855},
      author = {Shaw, Bernard,},
      title = {Pygmalion : a romance in five acts /},
      publisher = {Penguin Books,},
      address = {London ;},
      pages = {xx, 122 p. ;},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {Pygmalion 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. This is the definitive  text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H.  Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas  Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play.  Also included in this volume is Shaw's preface, as well as  his 'sequel' written for the first publication in 1916, to  rebut public demand for a more conventionally romantic  ending.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/289855},
}