# Pygmalion

**Author:** George Bernard Shaw
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–18
**First published:** 1913
**Page count:** 96
**Genre:** Drama
**ISBN-13:** `9780486282220`
**ISBN-10:** `0486282228`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/pygmalion
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

George Bernard Shaw's play follows phonetics professor Henry Higgins, who bets he can pass off the Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle as a duchess by changing her speech. As Eliza transforms, the play questions class, language, and who gets to be treated as fully human. A common grades 9-12 text (and the basis for My Fair Lady) for studying social class and identity.

## Themes

- social class
- identity
- language and thought
- gender

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