Phonetics professor Henry Higgins bets he can pass a Cockney flower girl off as a duchess by fixing her speech, and reaps unintended consequences. A witty attack on class and the English accent.
Books that mention Pygmalion (4)
Educated by Tara Westover: “"How marvelous," he said, smiling. "It's as if I've stepped into Shaw's Pygmalion."”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari: “In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Henry Higgins doesn't need to establish an intimate acquaintance with Eliza Doolittle”
Artful by Ali Smith: “Shirley Valentine and Shaw's Pygmalion and Aristophanes's Lysistrata”