Pygmalion is a Shavian study of language and speech and their importance in society and in personal relationships. This play's so incredibly successful mostly because it confronts a truth universally acknowledged in the English-speaking world: even though English is a dynamic, changing language, there always seems to be only one "acceptable" ways to speak it. Pygmalion premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913, in a German translation by Shaw's Viennese literary agent and acolyte, Siegfried Trebitsch. She came on board almost immediately, but her mild nervous breakdown contributed to the delay of a London production. Shaw wrote the play in early 1912 and read it to famed actress Mrs Patrick Campbell in June. There's a reason why Pygmalion's been turned into a movie, a musical, and a movie musical.
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