An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.

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The original story of Pygmalion is drawn from Greek mythology. A sculptor who mistrusted the virtue of women, Pygmalion kept to himself, devoting himself to his art. One day he created a statue of a woman. She was so beautiful, and the sculptor so lonely, that he fell in love with his creation and prayed to the goddess Aphrodite to give him a wife who resembled the statue. Instead, the goddess brought the statue itself to life. The ancient writer ApoUodorus, telling his earlier version of the myth, called this statue-tttrned-woman Galatea.

INTRODUCTION

CHRONOLOGY OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW"S

 LIFE AND WORK

HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF Pygmalion

PYGMALION

PREFACE TO Pygmalion

NOTES

INTERPRETIVE NOTES

CRITICAL EXCERPTS

QUSTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERESTED READER