Shaw, Bernard  1856-1950 <br/><br/>
Pygmalion    a romance en five acts 

 - London  Penguin  s.f. 
 - 150 p. 
 - The Bernard Shaw library .
<br/><br/> Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, of Protestant stock, in 1856, and died at Aot St Lawrence, Herts, in 1950. The first London perfomance of Pygmalion took place in 1914: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Mrs Patrick Campbell took the leading roles. From the outset in proved a sensational sucess, although Shaw, irrittated by its popularity at the expense of his artistic intentions, dismissed that Higgins and Eliza would marry he wrote a short-story epilogue with a bitter-sweet ending. Nevertheless, Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady not only is a delightful fantasy but also has women's independence. Its combination of ideas and social comment, together with its rich comie characterization, make it one of the most enduring and ehtertaining of english comedies. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>AUTORES IRLANDESES<br/>TEATRO<br/>INGLÉS
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>821-2=111 S26p