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1、1Pygmalion卖花女2George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw(26 July 1856 2 November 1950),was an Anglo-Irish playwright,critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre,culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.He wrote more than sixty plays.With a range incorporating bot

2、h contemporary satire and historical allegory,Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation,and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.3Major Works卡希尔.拜伦的职业Cashel Byrons Profession武器和人Arms and the Man鲧夫的房产Widowers Houses英国佬的另一个岛John Bulls Other Island圣女贞德Saint Joan卖花女Pygmalion魔鬼的门徒T

3、he Devils Disciple人与超人Man and Superman伤心之家Heartbreak House华伦夫人的职业Mrs.Warrens Profession巴巴拉少校Major Barbara苹果车The Apple Cart长生（千岁人）Back to Methuselah凯撒和克娄巴特拉Caesar and Cleopatra4Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw,named after a Greek mythological character.5CharacterHenry Higgins,a linguistic s

4、cientist.A robust and handsome forty-year-old bachelor.He is absolutely uncivilized in his relations with people.Although he firmly believes himself to be kindhearted and considerate.Higgins makes a bet with another scientist,Colonel Pickering,that he can,in six months,make a Cockney flower girl spe

5、ak so well that she can be passed off as a duchess.亨利.希金斯6Eliza Doolittle,the flower girl.Dirty and ignorant,Eliza comes to Higgins and pathetically begs him to teach her to speak well enough to run a respectable flower shop.Grown fond of Higgins and grateful to him,Eliza tries to please him and is

6、ignored.Gradually disappointed at Higgins ingnorance,she left the 2 men in the nignt after the embassy reception.To assert herself,Eliza threatens to go into competition with Higgins,using his own methods of teaching proper speech.Higgins rudely congratulates Eliza on her assertiveness and welcomes

7、her as a friend and equal.Eliza marries not Higgins but Freddy Hill.They open a flower shop that,with Pickerings help,finally becomes prosperous.伊莉莎.杜利托7Colonel Pickering,a linguist who has traveled to London from India to see Higgins.An elderly,amiable soldier,Pickering is as confirmed a bachelor a

8、s Hig gins,but he is a gentleman who treats Eliza with respect and helps to mo d e rate H i g g i n s mistreatment of her.皮克林上校8Alfred Doolittle,a dustman,Elizas father.Doolittle is distinguished by a good voice,an original mind,and a complete absence of conscience.He plans to blackmail Higgins,mist

9、akenly thinking that Higgins has taken Eliza as his mistress.Higgins and Pickering are so delighted by the scoundrels straightforwardness that they give him five pounds.Doolittle is made middle class by Higgins letter to Ezra D.Wannafeller,an American philanthropist,Higgins calls Doolittle“the most

10、original moralist”in England.Wannafeller leaves Doolittle an income of 3 thousand pounds a year.阿尔弗雷德.杜利托9Mrs.Higgins,Henrys mother,a woman of taste.She has asked her barbaric son to stay away when she is receiving guests.Her poise and competence help to bring some order into the lives of those arou

11、nd her.10N e p o m m u c k,a spectacularly bewhiskered Hungarian.At the embassy reception at which Eliza is passed off as nobility,Nepommuck,a former pupil of Higgins who makes his living as a translator,testifies that Eliza is certainly of royal blood,perhaps a princess.11Freddy Eynsford Hill,the u

12、neducated and unintelligent son of an impoverished noble family.He is the son and the brother of Mrs.Eynsford Hill and Miss Clara Eynsford Hill.He loves Eliza and haunts the street by Higgins house to catch a glimpse of her.He marries her at last and submits to her benevolent despotism.Mrs.Pearce,He

13、nry Higgins housekeeper,a very proper and very middle-class woman.Mrs.Pearce,by sheer force of will,enforces a semblance of order and propriety in Higgins house.12Act One A group of people are sheltering from the rain.Shortly they are joined by a gentleman,Colonel PickeringColonel Pickering.While th

14、e flower girl Elizaflower girl Eliza tries to sell flowers to the Colonel,her accent attracts Henry Henry HigginsHiggins,a professor of phonetics.Eliza worries that Higgins is a police officer and will not calm down until Higgins introduces himself.It soon becomes apparent that he and Colonel Picker

15、ing have a shared interest in phonetics;13Act One14Act Two Next Day.Eliza comes to Higgins home and tells Higgins that she will pay for lessons.15Act Two16 Meanwhile,Alfred Doolittle,Elizas father who has no paternal interest in his daughters welfare comes to demand his daughters return.He appears w

16、ith the sole purpose of getting money out of Higgins.The scene ends with Higgins telling Pickering that they really have got a difficult job on their hands.17 For months,Higggins has trained Eliza to speak properly.2 trials for Eliza follow.18Act 3The 1st occurred at Mrs.Higgins drawing room.It is M

17、rs.Higginss at home day and she is entertaining visitors.The visitors are the Eynsford-Hills.Higgins bursts in and tells his mother he has picked up a common flower girl w h o m h e h a s b e e n teaching and he wants his mother to test the girl to see if she is qualified to be a true lady.19Act Thr

18、eeWhilst she is now able to speak in beautifully modulated tones,the substance of what she s a y s r e m a i n s unchanged from the gutter.20 The 2nd trial took place several months later at an ambassadors party.21 The scene begins with a whiskers who claims himself as one of the famous pupils of Pr

19、ofessor Higgins.His name is Nepommuck.He said he can speak 32 languages and is indispensable at these international parties and tonight he acts as the interpreter because the Greek diplomatist speaks English so villainously that he has to pay Nepommuck to help him.Whats worse,Nepommuck claims himsel

20、f able to distinguish any man in Europe judging from his languages.Colonel Pickering worries that Nepommuck will find out Eliza and blackmail her.The footman announces Pickering and Eliza.22232425Act FourHiggins home The time is midnight.Higgins,Pickering,and Eliza have returned from the ball.While

21、Pickering congratulates Higgins on winning the bet.Higgins scoffs and declares the evening a silly tomfoolery,thanking God its over and saying that he had been sick of the whole thing for the last two months.Deeply hurted by the ignorance of Higgins,Eliza throws Higgins slippers at him.Higgins is at

22、 first completely unable to understand Elizas preoccupation.When Higgins does understand he makes light of it,saying she could get married,but Eliza interprets this as selling herself like a prostitute.26 Finally she returns her jewellery to Higgins,including the ring he had given her,which he throw

23、s into the fireplace with a violence that scares Eliza.Furious with himself for losing his temper,he damns Mrs.Pearce,the coffee and then Eliza,and finally himself,for lavishing his knowledge and his regard and intimacy on a heartless guttersnipe,and retires in great dudgeon.Eliza roots around in th

24、e fireplace and retrieves the ring,she decided to leave.27Act FiveMrs.Higgins drawing roomThe next morning.Higgins and Pickering,perturbed by the discovery that Eliza has left them,call on Mrs.Higgins to phone the police.which causes Mrs.Higgins to decry their calling the police as though Eliza were

25、 a lost umbrella.28Act Five Doolittle emerges dressed in splendid wedding attire and is furious with Higgins because previously Higgins had recommended him as the most original moralist in England to a rich American founding Moral Reform Societies;the American had subsequently left Doolittle a pensi

26、on worth three thousand pounds a year.Mrs.Higgins informs her son that Eliza is upstairs,and explains the circumstances of her arrival,alluding to how marginalised and overlooked Eliza felt the previous night.Higgins is unable to appreciate this,and sulks when told that he must behave if Eliza is to

27、 join them.Doolittle is asked to wait outside.29Act FiveEliza enters,at ease and self-possessed.Higgins blusters but Eliza isnt shaken and speaks exclusively to Pickering.Eliza remarks that it was only by Pickerings example that she learned to be a lady,which renders Higgins speechless.30Doolittle e

28、xplains his situation and asks if Eliza will come with him to his wedding.Pickering and Mrs.Higgins also agree to go,and leave with Doolittle and Eliza to follow.31Ending T h e s c e n e e n d s w i t h a n o t h e r confrontation between Higgins and Eliza.Higgins asks if Eliza is satisfied with the

29、 revenge she has brought thus far and if she will now come back,but she refuses.Higgins defends himself from Elizas earlier accusation by arguing that he treats everyone the same,so she shouldnt feel singled out.Eliza replies that she just wants a little kindness,and that since he will never stop to show her this,she will not come back,but will marry Freddy.32Thank you!个人观点供参考，欢迎讨论