1、 lPygmalion:A Romance in Five Acts(1912)The story concerns Eliza Doolittle,a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins,a phoneticist,so that she may pass as a well born lady.The play is a sharp lampoon(讽刺)of the rigid British class system of the day and a comment on w
2、omens independence,packaged as a romantic comedy.Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins boasts to Colonel Pickering that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl,Eliza Doolittle,to pass for a duchess at an ambassadors party by teaching her to assume a veneer(外表)of gentility,the most important ele
3、ment of which,he believes,is impeccable speech.Eliza finds her way to the professors house and offers to pay for speech lessons,so that she can work in a flower shop.Pickering is intrigued and wagers that Higgins cannot back up his claim;Higgins takes Eliza on free of charge as a challenge to his skills.LinesNow hes made a lady of her,shes not fit to sell anything else.She doesnt know where to go,what to do or whats to become of her.
