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pygmalion
Pygmalion is a Greek name. Pygmalion—or Pygmaion accoring to Hesychios of Alexandra—is probably a Cypriot form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god.
Trivia about pygmalion
The preface to this 1913 play was entitled "A Professor of Phonetics"
Based on a myth, this 1913 play became a 1938 movie, a 1956 stage musical & a 1964 movie musical
This play that is quite concerned with the English language was, oddly enough, first performed in German in 1913
The inspiration for this 1913 play was taken in part from the life of an Edwardian philologist named Henry Sweet
Its preface says, "The English have no respect for their language, & will not teach their children to speak it"
In this Shaw play, Eliza Doolittle says of her aunt, "Gin was mother's milk to her"
Shaw:A professor turns a guttersnipe into a cultured pearl
First staged in 1913, this play was the basis for "My Fair Lady"
Professor Henry Higgins
'"Han then, Freddy: look wh' y' gowin
This mythological sculptor tragically fell in love with a beautiful statue he had carved
Him & Galatea
This 1913 George Bernard Shaw play was inspired by a story in Ovid's "Metamorphosis"
Characters in this Shaw play include Freddy Eynsford Hill & Colonel Pickering
The preface to this play says English is "not thus accessible even to Englishmen"