Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Mold the perfect review session with a crossword puzzle based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. As class members answer clues about Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins, and Colonel Pickering, they review key concepts from the play.

“What do you mean that my language is improper?” Prior to My Fair Lady was Pygmalion. Fair Eliza’s struggles with English, which according to George Bernard Shaw “is not accessible even to Englishmen,” come alive in the 1938 film version...

Read an overview of the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.

Full text of Shaw's play remade into the musical My Fair Lady in which Professor Henry Higgins tutors the very Cockney Eliza Doolittle, not only in the refinement of speech, but also in the refinement of her manner.

This is the full text of the five-act play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. It includes a preface by a professor of phonetics and a sequel "What Happens Next."

This Nobel Foundation profile of writer George Bernard Shaw is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech," "Biography," and "Other Resources."

Read the full text of Shaw's comedy, Arms and the Man. This, like most of Shaw's plays, gains much by being read rather than seen.

Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, wrote Silas Marner in 1861. While you're compiling materials for your Victorian unit, consider printing off these essay questions to help readers really explore the text. Some...

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, high schoolers respond to 10 short answer and essay questions based on Pygmalion. Students may also access an online quiz on the selection using the link at the bottom of...

This site lists and discusses the characters and themes in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw wants the reader to think about the problems caused by "common" language, and how language can separate people from different places and...