"Not bloody likely!" Eliza Doolittle exclaimed, and the theater audience gasped for air. George Bernard Shaw's fictional heroine in the play Pygmalion(1913) had pushed the boundaries of what could be said on stage. The play is a comic investigation of the mannerisms that make up the British class system. Click here to watch an Oscar winning version of Shaw's Pygmalion in Real video or here to listen to a discussion about the film. The musical My Fair Lady, also based on Pygmalion, can be accessed by going to our British Literature section. Four radio versions of Shaw's plays are available online.

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