Reviews - Пигмалион

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Пигмалион

George Bernard Shaw

3.75 AVERAGE

chole_12's review against another edition

4.0

funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ava_lanche's review against another edition

4.0

lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

toreypickard's review against another edition

4.0

“Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered.” Ahh, how I love a strong heroine and a non-traditional ending. It’s so refreshing to flip the happily ever after on its head. Now if only any of the film adaptations had had the guts for that....

2021 Challenge Prompts:
Popsugar Reading Challenge #35 - A book in a different format than you normally read (a play)
The 52 Book Club #32 - A selfish character
Read With Me Book Club #20 - Book to Screen (My Fair Lady, Pretty Woman, She’s All That, etc.)

latte_'s review against another edition

4.25

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jjstoff's review against another edition

2.0

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

caramels's review against another edition

5.0

“to those who have the greatest power of loving, love is a secondary affair”

cdlindwall's review against another edition

3.0

I thought the dialogue was pretty clever and the ideas behind the book were interesting enough. Some Victorian class warfare, 19th century sexism, etc etc.

But it's interesting that the parts of the movie we all love so much are not included in the actual play. It's like George Bernard Shaw recognized which scenes would be the funniest and bring the most liveliness to the stage and decided to skip right over them. Like the actual progression of Eliza's speech or the lessons with Higgins or the ball? All skipped. I found it strange, even if I could possibly understand thematically why he left out the sections highlighting Eliza's achievements.

I'm not much for reading plays to begin with. I just am not in love with the format. But for a social criticism of 19th century England (which for me sounds extremely boring), it had quite a bit of wit and charm.