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Analysis of My Fair Lady
The play My Fair Lady, written by Alan Jay Lerner in 1956, focuses on turning an unsophisticated flower girl into a well brought up lady. Henry Higgins is a professor of languages who is high class and very snobby. Eliza Doolittle is a poor flower girl who dreams of living the high class life. Colonel Pickering, a good friend of Professor Higgins, makes a wager with Professor Higgins that he can not fool everyone into thinking Eliza is a duchess.
Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) is known to be a remarkable lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter. Lerner began his career writing radio scripts, since then he has collaborated with composer Frederick Loewe, Gershwins, Burton Lane, and Andre Previn. Some of Lerner's other famous works include Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), Camelot (1960), An American Paris (1951), On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965), and CoCo (1969). Lerner won a Tony for My Fair Lady and received the prestigious Kennedy......

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