Warming up and readingDo you like watching plays?Do you like watching comedies or tragedies? Why?Do you know about Bernard Shaw?George Bernard Shawan Irish dramatist, literary critic, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater His main works include:ImmaturityWidowers' Houses PygmalionMan and Superman (1902),John Bull's Other Island (1904), Major Barbara (1905)Do you know anything more about Shaw?George Bernard Shaw was a freethinker, defender of women’s rights, and advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused the money. He was a very humorous playwright. Bernard Shaw’s works plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world. Phonetics Professor Henry Higgins tutors the very Cockney Eliza Doolittle, not only in the refinement of speech, but also in the refinement of her manner. When the end result produces a very ladylike Miss Doolittle, the lessons learned become much more far reaching. Do you know the myth of Pygmalion? It is a Greek myth.Pygmalion was a very gifted artist. He spent a long time making a stone statue of a beautiful woman. It was so beautiful that he couldn’t help loving it and wanted it to be his wife.But it was only a stone. How could he make his dream become true? He thought and thought and at last he asked the Greek Goddess to help him to bring it to life.The Greek Goddess agreed to help and his wish was granted.The Greek myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights.Based on the classical myth, Bernard Shaw wrote a famous play Pygmalion.My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.The musical’s 1956 Broadway productio...
