Pygmalion (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: c. 1900
- Genres: Drama, Problem play, Comedy
- Subjects: Language or languages, Class conflict, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Class consciousness, England or English people, Lower classes, London, Grammar
- Locales: London, England
Places Discussed
*London. In the early twentieth century, London was the center of world commerce and the leading city of the democratic societies. However, for all its importance to world democracies, London was home to the British Empire and organized into a rigid class system, which permitted no crossing of boundaries. One of the chief means of enforcing such a system was categorizing people according to their language patterns. Pygmalion is about how a guttersnipe, Eliza Doolittle, overcomes the English class system by exchanging her Cockney accent for an upper-class...
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