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63) Heartbreak house
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
Dover edition.
Language
English
Description
One of the distinguished comic dramatist's more somber plays, this entertaining allegory examines apathy, confusion and lack of purpose as causes of major world problems, with larger-than-life characters representing the evils of the modern world.
65) My fair lady
Language
English
Formats
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Following her successful appearance at an Embassy Ball--where Eliza Doolittle won Professor Henry Higgins' bet that he could pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchess--Eliza becomes an assistant to his chief rival Emil Nepommuck. After Nepommuck publicly takes credit for transforming Eliza into a lady, an enraged Higgins submits proof to a London newspaper that Nepommuck is a fraud. When Nepommuck is found with a dagger in his back, Henry Higgins...
69) Saint Joan
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Irish playwright's dramatic presentation of Joan of Arc as peasant, genius, saint and fifteenth century feminist.
75) My fair lady
Language
English
Description
Lerner and Loewe's musical version of 'Pygmalion' about a Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a lady.
76) Pygmalion
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.
77) Saint Joan
Series
Pub. Date
©2010, ©1957.
Language
English
Description
Graham Green's adaptation of Bernard Shaw's play about the life of Joan of Arc.
Language
English
Description
"Epifania is glamorous, clever-- and also the richest woman in the world. After yet another row with her spendthrift husband, Epifania meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor. But she faces the challenge her money-mad father imposed on her before his death: She can only marry a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50,000 pounds within six months"--Container.
In the bonus play, set 40 years in the future, the king must match wits with an unruly mistress...
80) Pygmalion: DVD
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Professor Higgins succeeds in transforming an unkempt London flower girl into a society belle.
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