{"product_id":"pygmalion","title":"Pygmalion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePygmalion\u003c\/i\u003e both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor 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 who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ''creation'' has a mind of her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306325778814,"sku":"NW9780141439501","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141439501.jpg?v=1778238014","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/pygmalion","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}