01869nam a22002177a 4500 20251206125857.0 220912b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788125042495 AL eng 822.912 SHAP Bernard Shaw 248159 Pygmalion : a romance in five acts Hyderabad Orient Blackswan 2022 xviiii,148p PB 21x14cm English 3496 144.00 ₹ 185.00 ₹ 09-08-2022 Pygmalion is another notable play by one of the greatest dramatists of English literature, Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion belongs to the AC Ward series from Orient BlackSwan. They are plays of ideas. Shaw’s plays mark a milestone in the history of British drama as they show a movement away from romanticism to realism. They are marked by a peculiarly pungent and witty satire that invoked both admiration and disdain. They not only provoked readers to think but also helped them notice the humour and irony of situations that were ordinarily taken for granted and to delve below the surfaces of refinement to examine some of the pleasant and unpleasant truths of human existence. Pygmalion is about the effort made by a professor of phonetics to educate and refine a cockney girl who has a deplorably cockney accent and how it all rebounds in an interesting way. However, the end of the play is a return to reality as Eliza needs to return to her ordinary day-to-day life after a tryst with refinement. It provokes readers to think about the irony of the situation. This series has been now enhanced and enriched with additional student-friendly features such as analyses of themes and characterisation, act-wise summaries and questions and also a select reading list. English Drama 57166 English Criticism 57167 ddc BK 224578 224578 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2022-08-11 Biblios Book Point, Surathkal, Mangalore-575014 144.00 1 822.912 SHAP 075981 2024-12-09 00:00:00 2024-09-17 185.00 2022-09-12 BK