Fecha de publicación George Bernard Shaw is a prolific writer who won the Nobel Prize in 1925. His work, Pygmalion, is an indirect representation of his personal growth and reflects his understanding of his time, especially his concern for the reality of the lower class. The play’s attention to the myth Pygmalion shows the writer’s strong desire for social reforms. With this in his heart, Shaw, along with Ibsen, initiates a revolution in drama: they use
drama to represent social reality, to broadcast their social ideas, and to inspire the audience to realize these ideas. This article is intended to review the play and myth and is divided into five parts. The first part introduces the playwright Shaw; the second part looks back into the social background of the Victorian Age; the third part is the research of the
Pygmalion effect and the original myth; the fourth part is the analysis of the play in detail; and part five is the summary of the whole thesis.
Autor Shaw, George Bernanrd
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Resumen "Pigmalión" de George Bernard Shaw cuenta la historia de Eliza Doolittle, una joven florista con un fuerte acento cockney, que es transformada por el profesor de fonética Henry Higgins en una dama de la alta sociedad mediante un experimento con la ayuda de Pickering.
