tailieunhanh - Lecture Drama II - Modern drama: Lecture 32 - Dr Irum Zulfiqar

There is never any overt reference in the play to Pygmalion; Shaw assumes a classical understanding. According to the Mythology Guide “Pygmalion saw so much to blame in women that he came at last to abhor the relation with them, and resolved to live unmarried. He was a sculptor, and had made with wonderful skill a statue of ivory, so beautiful that no living woman could be compared to it in beauty. |