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If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
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George Bernard
Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
 
1856–1950, Irish playwright and critic. He revolutionized the Victorian stage, then dominated by artificial melodramas, by presenting vigorous dramas of ideas. The lengthy prefaces to Shaw’s plays reveal his mastery of English prose. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.
 
Pronunciation:  shô from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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Man and Superman
Man and Superman—in which an idealistic, cerebral man succumbs to marriage—contains the almost equally famous dream sequence of Don Juan in Hell.
 
Pygmalion
Based on the classical myth, Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world.
 
Shaw, George Bernard, 53422 to 53792
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