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In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871.
The story of Pygmalion is the subject of Jean-Philippe Rameau's 1748 opera, Pigmalion. It was also the subject of Georg Benda's 1779 monodrama, Pygmalion. Ramler's poem Pygmalion was set to music as an aria by J.C.F.Bach in 1772, and as a cantata by Friedrich Benda in 1784. Pygmalion was the subject of Gaetano Donizetti's first opera, Il ...
Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle .
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady.
Pygmalion and Galatea, 1871 play by W. S. Gilbert; Galatea 2.2, 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers; Galatea is the name of the main flagship in the 1998 PC game Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War; Galatea is the name of the gynoid in the 1999 film Bicentennial Man. Galatea, a 2000 interactive fiction video game
He modelled the enigmatic and pivotal character Orinthia, the King's mistress, on Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the actress who had created the role of Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's Pygmalion. [3] The "Powermistress-General" is said by the biographers of Beatrice Webb to be modelled on Susan Lawrence , an old colleague of Shaw from the Fabian Society .
The Pygmalion myth had long been popular with theatrical illusionists. [3] Pygmalion and Galatea was the first film adaptation of the story; many others followed it in the silent era and beyond. [4] Méliès and Jehanne d'Alcy play the roles of Pygmalion and Galatea in the film. [5]
Pygmalion is the most influential dramatic work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, other than his opera Le devin du village.Though now rarely performed, it was one of the first ever melodramas (that is, a play consisting of pantomime gestures and the spoken word, both with a musical accompaniment).