Pygmalion, By Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
A Romance in Five Acts
1. Summary of the Play, page 2
2. Introduction and Short Analysis of the Main Character, page 4
3. Interpretation, page 5
4. Additional Information, page 7
5. Literature and Links, page 8
1. Summary
London at 11.15 a.m., on a rainy summer day.
Everybody’s running for shelter because of the torrential storm. A bunch of people ist gathering in St. Pauls church, looking outside and waiting for the rain to stop.
Among the crowd, there is a young flower girl which grew up in the slums of London and therefore has a terribly bad language, although she is a good-natured, simple and pure being.
She is carrying a basket with flowers. As there is nothing else to do while waiting for the rain to end, she asks a gentleman next to her to buy a flower.
The way she speaks attracts the attention of a bystander, who is constantly scribbling down something in his notebook. The flower girl first thinks that he is a......
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