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	Pygmalion and Galatea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bloom probably knows of this through W. Gilbert's play, Pygmalion and Galatea (1871), which played at the Queen's Royal Theatre, Dublin, in November, 1891.· In that play, Pygmalion, a sculptor, is married to a woman named Cynisca, who is jealous of the animated statue, Galatea; after considerable trouble, Galatea voluntarily returns to her original state.
		The transformation was climaxed by the marriage of Pygmalion and Galatea.
		Pygmalion and Galatea is also the title of a popular play (1871) by Sir William S. Gilbert, a satire of sentimental-romantic attitudes toward myth.
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /rickard/Hypermedia/HTML/pygmalion.html (318 words)

	Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		The writer argued that Shaw, in not making Eliza marry Higgins, was playing with the readers, who all want them to get together, but that this ploy (or experiment) backfires, because the narrative he conjures up is actually stronger than the author, in this respect, and readers sense that something is wrong.
		this play was written carefully in order to illustrate the discrimination which was used to had in that time.it represent the uper class by Higgns and familiar people and it represent the lwoest one by Eliza and her father.
		A play to depict the hypocricy of the upper and middle class through the use of sarcastic dialogues and the delightful figure of Liza Doolitle as a second Galatea but not falling for her Pugmalion...
	www.online-literature.com /george_bernard_shaw/pygmalion (776 words)

	Amazon.ca: Reviews for Pygmalion: Books: George Bernard Shaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The play, therefore, is a representation of the transition from lower class society to upper-middle class lifestyle and plays on the theme that social status is dependant on speech.
		Pygmalion allows us to realize that one is not stuck with their natural born status, and that with a little hard work, respect can be gained.
		Pygmalion is a social commentary on London's class system in the 20th century, with a focus on employment opportunities, and gender and social discrimination.
	www.amazon.ca /Pygmalion-George-Bernard-Shaw/dp/customer-reviews/0486282228 (2630 words)

	Pygmalion
		Pygmalion was an early attempt to change the process of programming from one in which algorithms are described abstractly in a programming language to one in which they are demonstrated concretely to the machine.
		Pygmalion was an attempt to allow people to use their enactive and iconic mentalities along with the symbolic in solving problems.
		(Pygmalion was implemented on a 64 K byte computer with no virtual memory.) There was no way to write a compiler in it or a chess playing program or an accounting program, nor is it clear that its approach would even work for such large tasks.
	www.acypher.com /wwid/Chapters/01Pygmalion.html (4574 words)

	PYGMALION AND GALATEA
		In several of his plays he is labored and fantastic; in "Pygmalion and Galatea," it seems to us, he presents the pathos of idealism in a very effective manner, contrasting it grimly and cynically with frank reality.
		Galatea is the spirit of sweet, ingenuous, aspiring womanhood; she is ushered into a world of bitterness, jealousy, vulgarity; she loves her maker, who is a narrow-hearted and fatuous sculptor; she meets those who prove to her that life is a thing of sorrow.
		The contrast between the innocent Galatea and the selfish Pygmalion is painful, mournful.
	www.savoyoperas.org.uk /others/pygmalion.html (536 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Pygmalion at Epinions.com
		In the play Pygmalion isn't a sculptor, rather he's Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard), a phoneticist; rather than being a sculpture Galatea starts as a woman (more by biological definition than Higgins's perception) in the form of Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller), a Cockney flower girl.
		The first portion of this play centers around ridiculing Eliza's accent and then the practice that she must endure to attain the dialect associated with a duchess.
		Another difference between the movie and the play is that the play during the visit with Mrs.
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	Pygmalion (play) Summary
		Had Shaw died in the same year that Queen Victoria did (1901), he would not be known as one of the greatest playwrights in English since Shakespeare, but he would still be recognized as one of the major figures of the literary and intellectual scene in l...
		Pygmalion(1912) is a play by George Bernard Shaw.
		The lead role of Eliza Doolittle was written for Mrs Patrick Campbell, though at 49 she was considered by some to be too old for the part.
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		The play is centered around just this: the moulding of Eliza, her presentation at the ball and the resolution of everything that happens.
		In the Pygmalion play Shaw clearly demonstrates his mastery of the playwright's craft by not only delivering the story through dialog, but also through character and scene descriptions.
		Since the Pygmalion movie already started removing the thread of Higgins' general caustic nature as a polar measure for Eliza's complacency this acceptance of criticism fits with the character and the plot without problem.
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	What's In A Name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The name Pygmalion originates from the Greek god, Pygmalion, whose notoriety stems from his love affair with the ivory statue he created.
		Pygmalion showed his gratitude by executing his promise of marriage and everlasting love.
		In 1913 George Bernard Shaw published a play, Pygmalion, which was produced as a film in 1938.
	www.pygmalioninc.com /name.htm (246 words)

	PYGMALION. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Master Essays
		Although 'the oldest profession' was just as large a factor in society in 1912 when George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion play was released as it is today, it was talked about much less freely and the idea of reforming street girl was not as feasible as it is today.
		Pygmalion created and formed this woman, showing that if you want something bad enough and love it as much as he loved his statue, you can make it happen.
		Eliza is a fresh new woman, and is capable of playing off the aristocratic role, to live a sophisticated and proper life of her own.
	www.masteressays.com /essay/013515.html (2113 words)

	Amazon.com: Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions): Books: George Bernard Shaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George Bernard Shaw's 1912 play Pygmalion is a near perfect representation of society in general.
		The main characters of the play come off as hopelessly pathetic, Eliza in her primitive dialect and low social status, and Higgins with his sexist attitude and outspoken opinions.
		Although it is reported that Shaw ended his play like this on purpose, as a deliberate attack on the "cookie cutter" endings that audiences so easily predicted, the purpose proves to be a failure as far as entertainment goes.
	www.amazon.com /Pygmalion-Thrift-Editions-George-Bernard/dp/0486282228 (2227 words)

	Pygmalion - preface
		Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw.
		The central idea of the play is that your life can be shaped by the way that you speak.
		In Ovid's telling of the story, Pygmalion is a lonely sculptor who carves an ivory statue representing his ideal of womanhood.
	www.bl.uk /learning/histcitizen/21cc/lang/prejudice1/pygmalion1/pygmalion.html (154 words)

	Pygmalion (play) Essays
		In George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion." the phonetician Henry Higgins displays chauvinistic opinions and feelings of his own superiority through his generalizations about women and mistreatment of his student and "project," Eliza Doolittle.
		Describes how it plays on the complex business of human relationships in the social world and is a witty and satirical production that keeps the audience glued to their seats anxiously awaiting the next plot twist or development.
		Discusses whether or not the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion, is a romance.
	www.bookrags.com /essay/Pygmalion_(play) (399 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Pygmalion
		First staged in London in 1914, it questioned the assumptions of middle- and upper-class theatregoers that the English class system was on firm foundations and that respectable women knew their place in the hierarchies of both gender and class.
		The plot of Pygmalion, as the title indicates, is a reworking of Ovid’s myth in Metamorphoses in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, makes a female statue, Galatea, and falls in love with it.
		In Shaw’s subversion, Higgins, the Pygmalion figure, makes a wager with colleague and friend, Colonel Pickering, that in six months he can teach elocution to this Cockney flower girl and pass her off as a duchess at a society ball.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2517 (680 words)

	I'LL SAY SHE IS - The Marble Fountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pygmalion carved a statue of Galatea and so great was his love for this marble image that he brought it to life.
		Pygmalion, King of Cyprus, created a lifelike statue of his ideal of womanhood.
		George Bernard Shaw created Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle as the Pygmalion and Galatea of his play "Pygmalion" and that play in turn was the basis of the popular musical "My Fair Lady".
	web.telia.com /~u66002771/fountain.htm (458 words)

	Literary Criticism on Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
		Pygmalion probes important questions about social class, human behavior, and relations between the sexes.
		Queen Victoria characterized the times with a set of values called Victorianism which revolved around "social high-mindedness, domesticity, and a confidence in the expansion of knowledge and the power of reasoned argument to change society." Industrialization had brought a demographic shift causing many more unskilled laborers to seek work in the city.
		Based on the play, Pygmalion, and the musical play by Allan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowewe, this DVD tells the story of a Cockey waif and how she was transformed into an elegant lady by a linguistics professor.
	kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /Pygmalion.htm (1240 words)

	Azusa Pacific University -- Around Campus
		Pygmalion is a story about a young woman named Eliza Doolittle, played by Lidia Badillo ‘04, a poor girl trying to sell flowers on the street.
		Eliza is discovered by Professor Higgins, played by Sean Sorenson ’04, and Colonel Pickering, played by Juan Guerrero ’06, who both share a passion for the English language.
		Pygmalion is considered a classic, inspiring the story for the movie My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn.
	www.apu.edu /around/pygmalion (284 words)

	Victorian Gamer - March 2000 - Book & Video Review
		The play and the movie can both serve as entertaining resources for understanding a little about Victorian culture in London.
		Pygmalion and Galatea were married and bore a son.
		Given that it is a "Hollywood" version of Victorian life, one should not expect too much in the way of authenticity, although the costumes and sets are beautiful and reasonably true to period.
	home.netcom.com /~jskipper/victoria/200003/pygmalion.html (525 words)

	Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
		Instead Pygmalion concentrated on his art until one day he ran across a large, flawless piece of ivory and decided to carve a beautiful woman from it.
		When he had finished the statue, Pygmalion found it so lovely and the image of his ideal woman that he clothed the figure and adorned her in jewels.
		Pygmalion and Galatea were wed, and Pygmalion never forget to thank Aphrodite for the gift she had given him.
	filmplus.org /plays/pygmalion.html (11981 words)

	Pygmalion: Jefferson Mays to play Henry Higgins on Broadway
		George Bernard Shaw’s famous play, Pygmalion, inspired the legendary and award winning musical My Fair Lady, written and composed by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.
		Based on the classical myth, Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world.
		Pygmalion premiered on Broadway in 1914 at the Park Theatre and subsequently was revived on Broadway in 1927, 1938, 1945 and 1987.
	www.newyorktheatreguide.com /news/may07/pygmalion09may07.htm (343 words)

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	Pygmalion
		The play as written isn't the romance (though Shaw misleadingly calls it that in his subtitle) of a student and teacher who fall in love.
		The play is not about the process of transformation but about its effects.
		Even after repeated viewings (and I have seen Pygmalion, as written, several times), a Shaw play makes you see and understand and be confused about social and moral and ethical and political issues that you were too complacent even to have noticed before.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~cmazer/pygmalio.html (539 words)

	eBay - Product Info - eBay — Pygmalion, VHS and NR items on eBay.com. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The play opens up well for the screen, as evidenced in the dreamy sequence when Eliza attends a society party, a scene smoothly edited by the young David Lean.
		The ending of the play _Pygmalion_ is open, but the one thing that you can be certain of is that Eliza is _not_ going to marry Higgins.
		The open ending was so unsatisfactory to the audience that Shaw wrote a prose sequel in which, after castigating, for their lack of imagination, those who asked him what happened afterwards, Shaw continues the story.
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	85.02.06: The Pygmalion Effect: A Dramatic Study in the Classroom
		His play Pygmalion is chock full of stage directions and suggestions for a director to follow.
		The positions of Galatea and Pygmalion are unclear in the final analysis, for Higgins has been given life, and experiences pain as well as joy for the first time; and Eliza has acquired attributes for which she has never had any real need, but wears as well as she has worn anything else.
		The myths that function as “morality plays” are the most useful here because their lessons are parables which will help students see the Shaw concepts later on.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/2/85.02.06.x.html (5475 words)

	Pygmalion.html
		This workbook is designed to be used alongside the study of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion,which we read in Year 8 as part of the Key Stage 3 Scheme of Work,addressing the National Curriculum requirement to read a "play by a major playwright".
		The soundtape should be used to play Act Two to the class while they followthe text in their copies of the book.
		The play is named after aGreek myth, retold by the poet Ovid, in which a sculptor calledPygmalion creates the figure of a perfectly beautiful woman.
	webspace.dialnet.com /gitep-eng/PGCE2002to2003/pygmalion.html (4526 words)

	Pygmalion - Lesson Plans from Movies and Film - George Bernard Shaw, My Fair Lady
		Since this is a play, watching a movie version is a very similar experience to seeing the play performed in a theater.
		"Pygmalion" is the classic play on which was based.
		The play served as the basis for the musical My Fair Lady.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/pygmalion.html (700 words)

	Stanley Kaufmann Interview On Shaw's Pygmalion: Play and Film Literature Film Quarterly - Find Articles
		Bert Cardullo (after Pygmalion credits): Well, it's nice to be back in a place where we speak American English after watching the perils of British English up and down the class scale in a marvelous film.
		Known to many readers for his years of film criticism for The New Republic, he's also a distinguished critic of the theater, an author (of novels and plays) in his own right, and a professor who has taught at Yale, the CUNY Graduate Center, and is currently teaching at Hunter College in Manhattan.
		As a matter of fact, you can demonstrate-I've tried to-that the three books he wrote before he began writing plays are the source of a lot of the material in his plays.
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	Learn more about Covent Garden in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
		Covent Garden is an area of central London most noted for its flower, fruit and vegetable market (now moved to Nine Elms) and the Royal Opera House.
		The marketplace and Royal Opera House were memorably brought together in the opening of George Bernard Shaw's play, Pygmalion, where Professor Higgins is waiting for a cab to take him home from the opera when he comes across Eliza Doolittle selling flowers in the market.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/co/covent_garden.html (781 words)

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