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Date written Title Year of publication 1878: The Legg Papers (abandoned draft of novel) unpublished [2] 1879: Immaturity (novel) 1930 1880: The Irrational Knot (novel) serial 1885–7; book 1905 1881: Love Among the Artists (novel) serial 1887–8; book 1900 1882: Cashel Byron's Profession (novel) serial 1885–6; book 1886; rev 1889, 1901 1883
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 ...
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.
Despite the many books written about him (Holroyd counts 80 by 1939) [289] Shaw's autobiographical output, apart from his diaries, was relatively slight. He gave interviews to newspapers—"GBS Confesses", to The Daily Mail in 1904 is an example [ 290 ] —and provided sketches to would-be biographers whose work was rejected by Shaw and never ...
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).
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 ...
Pygmalion and Galatea, an Original Mythological Comedy is a blank verse play by W. S. Gilbert in three acts based on the Pygmalion story. It opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 9 December 1871 and ran for a very successful 184 performances. [ 1 ]
The Pygmalion effect is a psychological ... in their book Pygmalion in ... King's unpublished research in 1970 provided two examples of failed Pygmalion effect ...