Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw Bart van Kreel In november 1959 leest Truman

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Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw Bart van Kreel In november 1959 leest Truman'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba' Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins