Pygmalion: The Play That Became My Fair Lady
George Bernard Shaw thought he knew exactly what Pygmalion was about.
His audiences had other ideas.
What begins as an outrageous experiment—can Professor Henry Higgins transform a Cockney flower girl into a lady simply by changing the way she speaks?—becomes something much larger: a brilliant argument about class, language, identity, education, independence, and the strange relationship between a creator and his creation.
In this Chesterton Radio deep dive, we meet the remarkable and argumentative George Bernard Shaw, trace Pygmalion back to the ancient myth that gave the play its name, and…
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