This play is based on the Greek myth of Pygmalion. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering ...

If you’ve never seen “Pygmalion,” you may be surprised to learn that it’s a comedy, but not, unlike “My Fair Lady,” a romantic one. Shaw went to considerable trouble to make clear that Henry Higgins ...

Linda: The myth of Pygmalion is told in Ovid's Metaphorphoses. Pygmalion was a gifted young sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. Pygmalion had strong misgivings about women ...