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  2. George Bernard Shaw - Wikipedia

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    Androcles and the Lion (1912), which Shaw began writing as a play for children, became a study of the nature of religion and how to put Christian precepts into practice. [238] Pygmalion (1912) is a Shavian study of language and speech and their importance in society and in personal relationships. To correct the impression left by the original ...

  3. Pygmalion (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/ p ɪ ɡ ˈ m eɪ l i ən /; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a ...

  4. Pygmalion (Rousseau) - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. Pygmalion (play) - Wikipedia

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    Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented on stage in German.

  6. Pygmalion effect - Wikipedia

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    The Pygmalion effect is a psychological ... in their book Pygmalion in ... King's unpublished research in 1970 provided two examples of failed Pygmalion effect ...

  7. Edith Hamilton - Wikipedia

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    The book received favorable reviews, was another Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and had sold more than four and a half million copies by 1957. [39] [40] Later works. In 1942, after moving to Washington, D.C., Hamilton continued to write.

  8. Pygmalion - Wikipedia

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    Pygmalion, a character in Virgil's Aeneid (29–19 B.C.) "Pigmalion" ( Back at the Barnyard episode) , a 2008 episode of the Nickelodeon animated television series Back at the Barnyard "Pigmalion", a 2003 episode of Mike Judge’s animated television series King of the Hill

  9. Pygmalion in the Classroom - Wikipedia

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    Pygmalion in the Classroom is a 1968 book by Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson about the effects of teacher expectation on first and second grade student performance. [1] The idea conveyed in the book is that if teachers' expectations about student ability are manipulated early, those expectations will carry over to affect teacher behavior ...