George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic and polemicist (1856–1950). Leading dramatist of his time, prolific author of plays such as Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Major Barbara and Man and Superman; awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
Books
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1. Pigmalion
A Romance in Five Acts
A brash linguist bets he can transform a poor Cockney flower seller into someone who can pass for high society simply by teaching her to speak properly, and the experiment exposes the arbitrary nature of class distinctions, the power of language to shape identity, and the moral complications that follow when a pupil gains independence and challenges her teacher’s assumptions, leaving relationships and social expectations unsettled.
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2. Pygmalion And Three Other Plays
A collection of four sharply comic and polemical plays that use wit, lively dialogue, and memorable characters to probe social conventions; the central story charts the transformation of a rough-speaking flower seller into a genteel lady through lessons in speech and manners, exposing how language and class shape identity and revealing the hypocrisies of polite society, while the accompanying plays similarly blend satire and moral inquiry to challenge assumptions about marriage, responsibility, and individual conscience.
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