George Bernard Shaw

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw’s classic play and satire of the British class system, was first performed in 1913.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Pygmalion is George Bernard Shaw’s classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.

Penguin Classics relaunch Exclusive to Penguin Classics – the definitive text of Shaw's powerful historical drama about Joan of Arc, which led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature – part of the official Bernard Shaw Library. A Penguin Classic With Saint Joan, which distils many of the ideas Shaw had been exploring in earlier works on politics, religion,...

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure...