Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781977832634 - October 1, 2017
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Bernard Shaw
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Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen. The reformer England needs today is an energetic phonetic enthusiast: that is why I have made such a one the hero of a popular play. There have been heroes of that kind crying in the wilderness for many years past. When I became interested in the subject towards the end of the eighteen-seventies, Melville Bell was dead; but Alexander J. Ellis was still a living patriarch, with an impressive head always covered by a velvet skull cap, for which he would apologize to public meetings in a very courtly manner.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 1, 2017
ISBN13 9781977832634
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 92
Dimensions 178 × 254 × 5 mm   ·   176 g
Language English  

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