01:190:207 Lecture 12: lecture 12
14 Mar 2018
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Winner of 8 academy awards (includng best picture and best actor-rex harrison) a poor cockney flower seller eliza doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, henry higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak proper English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of edwardian london, Based upon the play pygmalion by george bernard shaw. A history of myth in 25 people: 12. Winner of the nobel prize for literature in 1925. Author of pygmalion, caesar and cleopatra and saint joan. Pygmalion had seen these women spending their lives in shame, and, disgusted with the faults, which in such full measure nature had given the female mind, he lived unmarried and long was without a partner of his couch. Meanwhile, with wondrous art he successfully carves a figure out of snowy ivory, giving it a beauty more perfect than that of any woman ever born. And with his own work he falls in love.
