Pygmalion Strategist and Conqueror of Wild

Strategist and Conqueror of Wild Eccentricity and Debauchery

in Life on Planet Rock

246 Illustrations

and No One Can Stop It

the Detailed Readings Focus on the Ways in Which Dietrich's Glamorous Characters Challenge the Theorisation of Woman As a Beautiful Object

Pygmalion Strategist and Conqueror of WildPygmalion Both Delighted and Scandalized Its First Audiences in 1914. a Brilliantly Witty Reworking of the Classical Tale of the Sculptor Pygmalion, 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 is the Pygmalion Figure Who Believes He Can Transform Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney Flower Girl, Into a Duchess at