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Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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    Hailed as a Tolstoy with jokes by one critic, George Bernard Shaw was the most significant British playwright since the seventeenth century. Pygmalion persists as his best-loved play, one made into both a classic filmwhich won Shaw an Academy Award for best screenplayand the perennially popular musical My Fair Lady.Pygmalion follows the adventures of phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he attempts to transform cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady. The scene in which Eliza appears in high society with the correct accent but no notion of polite conversation is considered one of the funniest in English drama. Like most of Shaws work, Pygmalion wins over audiences with wit, a taut morality, and an innate understanding of human relationships.This volume also includes Major Barbara, which attacks both capitalism and charitable organizations, The Doctors Dilemma, a keen-eyed examination of medical morals and malpractice, and Heartbreak House, which exposes the spiritual bankruptcy of the generation responsible for the bloodshed of World War I.John A. Bertolini is Ellis Professor of the Liberal Arts at Middlebury College, where he teaches dramatic literature, Shakespeare, and film. He has written The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw and articles on Hitchcock, and British and American dramatists. Bertolini also wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Shaws Man and Superman and Three Other Plays.;The world of George Bernard Shaw and his plays -- Introduction / by John A. Bertolini -- Preface to Major Barbara : first aid to critics -- Major Barbara (1905) -- Preface on Doctors -- The doctors dilemma (1906) -- Preface to Pygmalion : a professor of phonetics -- Pygmalion (1913) -- Preface to Heartbreak House : Heartbreak House and Horseback Hall -- Heartbreak House (1920) -- Endnotes -- Inspired by Pygmalion and three other plays -- Comments & questions -- For further reading.

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Table of Contents FROM THE PAGES OF PYGMALION AND THREE OTHER PLAYS I am - photo 1

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FROM THE PAGES OF
PYGMALION AND
THREE OTHER PLAYS
I am, and have always been, and shall now always be, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or malexperienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
(from Shaws preface to Major Barbara, pages 4344)

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. (from Major Barbara, page 127)

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. (from Major Barbara, page 132)

If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
(from Shaws preface to The Doctors Dilemma, page 166)

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. (from Pygmalion, page 394)

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
(from Pygmalion, pages 451 -452)

The surest way to ruin a man who doesnt know how to handle money is to give him some. (from Heartbreak House, page 568)
His heart is breaking: that is all. It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. (from Heartbreak House, page 596)
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Major Barbara was first published in 1907, Doctors Dilemma in 1909,
Pygmalion in 1916, and Heartbreak House in 1919.

Published in 2004 by Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction,
Notes, Biography, Chronology, Inspired By, Comments & Questions,
and For Further Reading.

Introduction, Notes, and For Further Reading
Copyright @ 2004 by John Bertolini.

Note on George Bernard Shaw, The World of George Bernard Shaw and His Plays,
Inspired by Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, and Comments & Questions
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Pygmalion and Three Other Plays
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Dramatist, critic, and social reformer George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856, into a poor yet genteel Dublin household. His diffident and impractical father was an alcoholic disdained by his mother, a professional singer who ingrained in her only son a love of music, art, and literature. Just shy of his seventeenth birthday, Shaw joined his mother and two sisters in London, where they had settled three years earlier.
There he struggledand failedto support himself by writing. He first wrote a string of novels, beginning with the semi autobiographical Immaturity, completed in 1879. Though some of his novels were serialized, none met with great success, and Shaw decided to abandon the form in favor of drama. While he struggled artistically, he flourished politically; for some years his greater fame was as a political activist and pamphleteer. A stammering, shy young man, Shaw nevertheless joined in the radical politics of his day. In the late 1880s he became a leading member of the fledgling Fabian Society, a group dedicated to progressive politics, and authored numerous pamphlets on a range of social and political issues. He often mounted a soapbox in Hyde Park and there developed the enthralling oratory style that pervades his dramatic writing.
In the 1890s, deeply influenced by the dramatic writings of Henrik Ibsen, Shaw spurned the conventions of the stage in unpleasant plays, such as Mrs. Warrens Profession, and in pleasant ones like Arms and the Man and Candida. His drama shifted attention from romantic travails to the great web of society, with its hypocrisies and other ills. The burden of writing seriously strained Shaws health; he suffered from chronic migraine headaches. Shaw married fellow Fabian and Irish heiress Charlotte Payne-Townshend.
By the turn of the century, Shaw had matured as a dramatist with the historical drama Caesar and Cleopatra, and his master-pieces Man and Superman and Major Barbara. In all, he wrote more than fifty plays, including his antiwar Heartbreak House and the polemical Saint Joan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Equally prolific in his writings about music and theater, Shaw was so popular that he signed his critical pieces with simply the initials GBS. (He disliked his first name, George, and never used it except for the initial.) He remained in the public eye throughout his final years, writing controversial plays until his death. George Bernard Shaw died at his country home on November 2, 1950.
THE WORLD OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW AND HIS PLAYS
1856George Bernard Shaw is born on July 26, at 33 Upper Synge Street in Dublin, to George Carr Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw.
1865George John Vandeleur Lee, Mrs. Shaws singing instructor, moves into the Shaw household. Known as Vandeleur Lee, he has a reputation as an unscrupulous character.
1869Embarrassed by controversy and gossip related to his mothers relationship with Vandeleur Lee, young Sonny, as Shaw was called by his family, leaves school.
1871He begins work in a Dublin land agents office.
1873Shaws mother, now a professional singer, follows Van deleur Lee to London, where they establish a household that includes Shaws sisters, Elinor Agnes and Lucille Frances (Lucy). Shaws mother tries to earn a living per forming and teaching Vandeleur Lees singing method.
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