Pygmalion Audiobook, by George Bernard Shaw Play Audiobook Sample

Pygmalion Audiobook

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Read By: May Lane, Talia Morton, Kingsley Sanders, Simona Holt, Sofie Connor, Soraya Barton, Malcolm Cameron, Mustapha Mann Publisher: Author's Republic Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 1.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781982714093

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

9

Longest Chapter Length:

43:32 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

24 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

18:56 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

21

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Publisher Description

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women’s independence. 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 first presented in 1871. Shaw also would 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 the film of that name.

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About George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish-born playwright, critic, and political activist, began his writing career in London. In addition to writing sixty-three plays, his prodigious output as critic, pamphleteer, and essayist influenced numerous social issues. In 1925, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 1938 an Oscar for the movie version of Pygmalion.