Question

Refer to the passage from the play Pygmalion. Then answer question 5.

8. You have read a scene from the play Pygmalion. Think about what might happen next
and how the scene would change if it were written as a story.
Write a story that tells what happens next, using one of the characters from the scene
as the narrator. Use what you have learned about the scene's setting, conflict, and
characters to create your story,

Answer 1

ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1938 film Pygmalion, the 1956 musical My Fair Lady and its 1964 film version.

Shaw mentioned that the character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several British professors of phonetics: Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet.[1]

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