Download or read book Pygmalion Annotated Illustrated written by Bernard Shaw and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an annotated and illustrated version of the book1.contains an updated biography of the author at the end of the book for a better understanding of the text.2.It also contains new and unique illustrations to give a better documentation and realism to the bookAs will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place. The English have no respect fortheir language, and will not teach their children to speak it. Theyspell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth withoutmaking some other Englishman hate or despise him. German and Spanishare accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even toEnglishmen. The reformer England needs today is an energetic phoneticenthusiast: that is why I have made such a one the hero of a popularplay. There have been heroes of that kind crying in the wilderness formany years past. When I became interested in the subject towards theend of the eighteen-seventies, Melville Bell was dead; but Alexander J.Ellis was still a living patriarch, with an impressive head alwayscovered by a velvet skull cap, for which he would apologize to publicmeetings in a very courtly manner. He and Tito Pagliardini, anotherphonetic veteran, were men whom it was impossible to dislike. HenrySweet, then a young man, lacked their sweetness of character: he wasabout as conciliatory to conventional mortals as Ibsen or SamuelButler. His great ability as a phonetician (he was, I think, the bestof them all at his job) would have entitled him to high officialrecognition, and perhaps enabled him to popularize his subject, but forhis Satanic contempt for all academic dignitaries and persons ingeneral who thought more of Greek than of phonetics. Once, in the dayswhen the Imperial Institute rose in South Kensington, and JosephChamberlain was booming the Empire, I induced the editor of a leadingmonthly review to commission an article from Sweet on the imperialimportance of his subject. When it arrived, it contained nothing but asavagely derisive attack on a professor of language and literaturewhose chair Sweet regarded as proper to a phonetic expert only. Thearticle, being libelous, had to be returned as impossible; and I had torenounce my dream of dragging its author into the limelight. When I methim afterwards, for the first time for many years, I found to myastonishment that he, who had been a quite tolerably presentable youngman, had actually managed by sheer scorn to alter his personalappearance until he had become a sort of walking repudiation of Oxfordand all its traditions. It must have been largely in his own despitethat he was squeezed into something called a Readership of phoneticsthere. The future of phonetics rests probably with his pupils, who allswore by him; but nothing could bring the man himself into any sort ofcompliance with the university, to which he nevertheless clung bydivine right in an intensely Oxonian way. I daresay his papers, if hehas left any, include some satires that may be published without toodestructive results fifty years hence. He was, I believe, not in theleast an ill-natured man: very much the opposite, I should say; but hewould not suffer fools gladly

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Download or read book Pygmalion Illustrated Edition Persisting Concerns and Threats Parallels and Analogies With the Present Days What Changes and What Does Not Reco written by George Bernard Shaw and published by E-Artnow. This book was released on 2019-04-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." (Pygmalion, Preface) Named after a Greek mythological character the play was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence and has been successfully adapted into a motion picture and a musical comedy. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).

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