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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 ...
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.
Pygmalion; or, The Statue Fair is a play by William Brough that was advertised as a farcical musical burlesque. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was first produced in 1867, [ 3 ] and revived in March 1872. Described as having a complex plot that largely involves changing social status through matrimony , the story revolves around a young sculptor, Pygmalion ...
Pygmalion is a 1948 British TV production of the 1913 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was the first time the play was done for television and was the longest production done by the BBC to that time. [1] It starred Margaret Lockwood who was under suspension by the Rank Organisation at the time for refusing a film role. [2] [3]
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 performers that the play portrayed a romantic relationship between the two main characters Shaw rewrote the ending to make it clear that the heroine will marry another, minor ...
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).
Pigmalion, more commonly today Pygmalion, is an opera in the form of a one-act acte de ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 27 August 1748 at the Paris Opera. The libretto is by Ballot de Sauvot .
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