Pygmalion and Three Other Plays

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Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which provides quality editions at affordable prices, featuring new scholarship, thoughtful design, and additional content. Key features include new introductions from contemporary writers, author biographies, chronologies of relevant historical events, footnotes, discussions of related works, commentary from notable authors, study questions, bibliographies, and indices or glossaries when applicable. Each edition is beautifully designed and printed to high standards, with some including historical illustrations. Shaw, often regarded as the most significant British playwright since the seventeenth century, is celebrated for his wit and insight into human relationships. Pygmalion, his most beloved play, follows phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he transforms cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady, culminating in one of the funniest scenes in English drama. This volume also includes Major Barbara, which critiques capitalism and charity, The Doctor's Dilemma, exploring medical ethics, and Heartbreak House, which reveals the spiritual emptiness of a generation shaped by World War I. John A. Bertolini, an expert in dramatic literature, provides the introduction and notes for this edition.