Synopses & Reviews
Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain-first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.
About the Author
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was one of the most prolific writers of the modern theater. He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Dan H. Laurence edited many of Shaw's works and is the series editor for the works of Shaw in Penguin Classics.
Nicholas Grene is professor of English literature at Trinity College in Dublin.