Pigmalión - Pygmalion - Shaw, George Bernard

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Résumé :
Pigmali?n, de George Bernard Shaw, es un cl?sico atemporal que explora los temas de la clase social, la identidad y la transformaci?n. La obra gira en torno al profesor Henry Higgins, experto en fon?tica, que acepta el reto de transformar a Eliza Doolittle, una pobre florista con un fuerte acento cockney, en una refinada dama de habla impecable. A medida que Eliza se somete a este cambio ling??stico y social, no s?lo cambia su apariencia externa, sino que tambi?n se enfrenta a cuestiones de autoestima y expectativas sociales. La obra satiriza h?bilmente las r?gidas estructuras de clase de la Inglaterra eduardiana y cuestiona las nociones de superioridad inherente basadas en el habla y los modales. Los ingeniosos di?logos de Shaw y sus agudas observaciones hacen de Pigmali?n una exploraci?n entretenida y sugerente de las complejidades del comportamiento humano y las normas sociales. Esta edici?n presenta el texto original de Shaw -que sirvi? de base para el musical Mi bella dama- y ofrece a los lectores una ventana al panorama social de principios del siglo XX, al tiempo que ofrece una visi?n intemporal de la din?mica de poder del lenguaje y las expectativas sociales....

Biographie:
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was Nobel Prize-winning writer, political activist and critic. One of the most important writers of the twentieth century, he has been described as 'second only to Shakespeare in the British theatrical tradition'. Although he wrote over sixty plays, he is best remembered today for Man and Superman, Pygmalion and Saint Joan....

Sommaire:
Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and its film version. Shaw mentioned that the character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several British professors of phonetics: Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet....