Pygmalion, in Greek mythology, was a sculptor who made a beautiful marble statue of a woman. He named it Galatea. The statue was so beautiful that he fell in love with it. He doted on the statue, perfected it, dressed it, gave it jewelry and talked to it. Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, took notice of Pygmalion. She granted Galatea life and instructed her to love Pygmalion. Galatea and Pygmalion were married and lived happily to the end of Pygmalion's days. Shaw adapted this myth to Victorian England.
George Bernard Shaw is a famous Irish playwright and a devoted socialist. He made his American debut with Man and Superman, which was an immediate hit.
Shaw's dramatical intention was not to entertain but to get people to understand his criticism of modern society.
Only two of his plays, Pygmalion and Major Barbara were allowed by Shaw to become movies.
Pygmalion, in Greek mythology, was a sculptor who made a beautiful marble statue of a woman. Based on this myth George Bernard Shaw made his famous play Pygmalion which portrays the efforts by a British professor of linguistics to teach a cockney flower girl to talk and behave like an upper class "English Lady."
George Bernard Shaw won the Nobel prize for literature in 1925.
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