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Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette.

This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898; they were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences…

It's 1885, and Raina's bourgeois Bulgarian family is cought up in the heady patriotism of their war with Serbia.

Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories, but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady....

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw.

Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant.

This is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in England.

On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties.

Master dramatist George Bernard Shaw presents a realistic Joan of Arc at war, not just with British invaders, but with realpolitik. This is a masterpiece of the Theater of Ideas, presented in the most eloquent, vital, human, and moving terms.

The story centers on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren, a rich woman, described by the author as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman" and her daughter, Vivie.