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Pygmalion Study Guide

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by George Bernard Shaw
About 95 pages (28,464 words)
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Bentley, Eric Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, amended edition, New Directions, 1957.

Though Bentley's book (originally published in 1947) is not adulatory, Shaw considered it "the best book written about himself as a dramatist." Bentley states that his double intention in the book is "to disentangle a credible man and artist from the mass of myth that surrounds him, and to discover the complex component parts of his 'simplicity"' Pygmalion is discussed in detail, pages 119-126, and elsewhere in the book.

Crane, Milton, ''Pygmalion: Bernard Shaw's Dramatic Theory and Practice" in Publications of the Modern Language Association, Vol. 66, no 6, December, 1951, pp 879-85. Crane begins with the question of whether Shaw was old-fashioned in his approach to drama or innovative. Wrapped up in this issue is the figure of Ibsen, who Shaw declared was revolutionary for.....

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