Pygmalion

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PygmalionGeorge Bernard ShawThis public-domain text was produced byEve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, Project Gutenberg edition (designated pygml10 ) was subsequently converted toLATEX usingGutenMarksoftware, and thenre-edited by Ron Burkey (for formatting only)usinglyxsoftware. Report problems Revision B1 differs from Bin that - was everywhere replaced by .Revision: B1Date: 02/02/2008TRANSCRIBER S NOTE: In the printed ver-sion of this text, all apostrophes for contrac-tions such as can t , wouldn t and he d were omitted, to read as cant , wouldnt ,and hed.

Pyg-malion Higgins is not a portrait of Sweet, to whom the adventure of Eliza Doolittle would have been impossible; still, as will be seen, there are touches of Sweet in the play. With Higgins’s physique and temperament Sweet might have set the Thames on fire. As it was,

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