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Shaw, G: Pygmalion

Shaw, G: Pygmalion


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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2019

Recomandăm această ediție a piesei Pygmalion cititorilor pasionați de fineturi lingvistice și critică socială, celor care savurează dialogul ascuțit și personajele care refuză să fie simple piese într-un experiment. Considerăm că forța acestui text nu rezidă doar în transformarea spectaculoasă a Elizei Doolittle, ci în modul în care George Bernard Shaw demonstrează că limbajul este, în fond, o barieră de clasă aproape insurmontabilă. Imaginați-vă tensiunea socială și rigurozitatea lingvistică din Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, mutată într-un decor de realism didactic, unde muzica este înlocuită de observația tăioasă asupra ipocriziei britanice. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit prefața autorului, care dezvăluie rădăcinile reale ale personajului Henry Higgins în figura foneticianului Henry Sweet. Shaw nu scrie doar o comedie de moravuri, ci un manifest despre cum modul de a vorbi îi condamnă pe oameni la disprețul semenilor lor. Spre deosebire de alte lucrări ale sale, precum Major Barbara, unde dezbaterea ideologică vizează religia și capitalismul, în Pygmalion autorul se concentrează pe identitate și autodeterminare. Este o lucrare definitorie pentru stilul „shavian”, situându-se alături de Arms and the Man prin modul în care satirizează convențiile romantice. Ritmul este alert, susținut de replici care funcționează ca niște dueluri intelectuale, iar structura sa, deși clasică, rămâne surprinzător de modernă prin refuzul unui final convențional.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781644392331
ISBN-10: 164439233X
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com

De ce să citești această carte

Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra modului în care educația și limbajul ne modelează locul în societate. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile celebrei adaptări „My Fair Lady”, dar și pentru cei care apreciază umorul fin și critica socială care rămâne relevantă și după un secol de la publicare.

Despre autor

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) a fost un dramaturg irlandez, critic și activist politic, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în 1925. Stabilit la Londra, Shaw a devenit o figură centrală a teatrului occidental, scriind peste șaizeci de piese. Influențat de Ibsen, a introdus un nou realism în dramaturgia de limbă engleză, folosind scena ca platformă pentru ideile sale despre socialism, eugenie și reforma alfabetului. Printre cele mai cunoscute lucrări ale sale se numără Man and Superman și Saint Joan, Shaw fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa unică de a îmbina satira contemporană cu alegoria istorică.

Descriere scurtă

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894. Influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language drama, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas. By the early twentieth century his reputation as a dramatist was secured with a series of critical and popular successes that included Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma and Caesar and Cleopatra.
... In 1938 he provided the screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion for which he received an Academy Award. His appetite for politics and controversy remained undiminished; by the late 1920s he had largely renounced Fabian Society gradualism and often wrote and spoke favourably of dictatorships of the right and left--he expressed admiration for both Mussolini and Stalin. In the final decade of his life he made fewer public statements, but continued to write prolifically until shortly before his death, aged ninety-four, having refused all state honours, including the Order of Merit in 1946.
Since Shaw's death scholarly and critical opinion about his works has varied, but he has regularly been rated among British dramatists as second only to Shakespeare; analysts recognise his extensive influence on generations of English-language playwrights. The word Shavian has entered the language as encapsulating Shaw's ideas and his means of expressing them. (wikipedia.org)

Notă biografică

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In 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 English 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 musical My Fair Lady and its 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.

Descriere

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When George Bernard Shaw wrote "Pygmalion" more than a half century ago, it seemed unlikely that his little play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time, "My Fair Lady," and a motion picture that captured numerous Academy Awards. Yet such popularity should not have been surprising since succeeding generations of readers and playgoers find continual relevance in the story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society. The extraordinary wit of the master dramatist of the twentieth century has not lost its sharp edge as it cuts away at the artificially of class distinctions and the callousness of indifference to human worth.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady. An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, the 20th-century story pokes fun at the antiquated British class system.
In Shaw's clever adaptation, Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert, takes on a bet that he can transform an awkward cockney flower seller into a refined young lady simply by polishing her manners and changing the way she speaks. In the process of convincing society that his creation is a mysterious royal figure, the Professor also falls in love with his elegant handiwork.
The irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, together with Shaw's brilliant dialogue and splendid skills as a playwright, have made Pygmalion one of the most popular comedies in the English language. A staple of college drama courses, it is still widely performed.