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3 days ago · Pygmalion (1912) is a Shavian study of language and speech and their importance in society and in personal relationships. To correct the impression left by the original performers that the play portrayed a romantic relationship between the two main characters Shaw rewrote the ending to make it clear that the heroine will marry another, minor ...
4 days ago · George Bernard Shaw wrote a play titled Pygmalion (published in 1912) that brought this idea of creating the perfect woman to another level. Professor Henry Higgins takes a lower-class working ...
Jun 28, 2024 · The Pygmalion effect describes how high expectations of someone tend to lead to better performance, while lower expectations have the opposite effect. The Pygmalion effect was originally identified by psychologists Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson in classroom settings.
3 days ago · The myth of Pygmalion, the Greek sculptor whose ivory statue of a woman comes to life, was also deployed across several film genres to examine current anxieties about modern science and the construction of the female, from Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense thriller Vertigo (1958) (trailer here) to Georges Franju’s sophisticated horror film Les Yeux sans Visage (Eyes without a Face, 1959) (trailer here).
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5 days ago · Pygmalion, written by Bernard Shaw (1912) was structured around the myth of the Greek sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved, called Galatea. Similarly, Shaw presents Professor Higgins as the Greek sculptor and Eliza Doolittle as his Galatea.
5 days ago · Join Bench Theatre for a captivating exploration of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, a timeless tale of Eliza Doolittle defying stereotypes with explosive humour and unexpected poignancy, challenging preconceived notions about gender and class.
Jun 12, 2024 · 110 years on from its first performances, Garrick Theatre's current production is Pygmalion. Whilst perhaps more well-known in the musical form of My Fair Lady, the plot is very much the same here, looking at class and social mobility through the lens of language.
