Bernard Shaw
1) Pygmalion
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.
Author
Series
Penguin book volume 29
Pub. Date
[1962]
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
16) Six plays
Author
Pub. Date
1941.
Physical Desc
3 preliminary leaves, 745 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
17) Seven plays
Author
Pub. Date
1951.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 911 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
These plays are included in this volume: Caesar and Cleopatra, Mrs. Warren's Profession; Arms and the Man; Candida; saint Joan; Man and Superman and the Devil's Disiple.
19) My fair lady
Language
English
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with 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.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 362 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages)
Language
English
Description
The merchant of Venice: Shakespeare's comedy in which a young merchant attempts to extricate himself from an onerous contract with a vicious shylock.
The millionairess: Shaw's comedy in which a wealthy, heiress seeks romance with an Egyptian doctor who only tends to the poor.
Bed among the lentils: A dramatic monologue by a jaded, alcoholic wife of a country vicar.
Suddenly last summer: A wealthy Southern matriarch tries to influence a young neurosurgeon...
