Pygmalion |
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Author:
| Shaw, George Bernard |
ISBN: | 979-8-6434-7481-4 |
Publication Date: | May 2020 |
Publisher: | Independently Published
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $7.69 |
Book Description:
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Pygmalion is a play published on 1913 by George Bernard Shaw and it is based in the account of Ovídio PYgmalion. Shaw wrote this work at a time when phonetics were a booming topic; He said that spanish and german were very clear lanugages that foreigners of those languages could understand, but that English was so poorly spoken by them that they did not understand themselves. The Work turns out didactic, but without being boring.The work begins with a professor of phonetics, Henry...
More DescriptionPygmalion is a play published on 1913 by George Bernard Shaw and it is based in the account of Ovídio PYgmalion. Shaw wrote this work at a time when phonetics were a booming topic; He said that spanish and german were very clear lanugages that foreigners of those languages could understand, but that English was so poorly spoken by them that they did not understand themselves. The Work turns out didactic, but without being boring.The work begins with a professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, who transcribes just outside of Covent Garden in London the diction of the people who shelter from the rain with him.