Bernard Shaw
1) Pygmalion
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Henry Higgins is the cause of Liza Doolittle's metamorphasis from a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe" to a "duchess" by improving her manner, speech, and clothes.
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"In the opening scene of Arms and the Man, which establishes the play's embattled Balkan setting, young Raina learns of her suitor's heroic exploits in combat. She rhapsodizes that it is "a glorious world for women who can see its glory and men who can act its romance!" Soon, however, such romantic falsifications of love and warfare are brilliantly and at times hilariously unmasked in a comedy that reveals George Bernard Shaw at his best as an acute...