Pygmalion2.0033

Pygmalion2.0033_Leznoff

Pygmalion1.0168_BernardShaw
OGCMA s.v. "Pygmalion"
Classical Sources:
Ovid Met. 10.243-98
Apollodorus Libr. 3.14.3

Glenda Leznoff and Rachel Berman, Pigmalion (Vancouver: Tradewind Books, 2001), a low-brow punning farce on the animation of Pygmalion's statue.

Review in Outreach (Manitoba)

Puns abound: Ham-let, George Barnyard Shaw, Monsier Phillipe le Cochon ("the Oink"), Swine Lake. From appearances they surmise that myth is not being used.

From a review in Publishers Weekly: "Juliet the piglet knows she is destined for the stage, but there's a problem: she suffers from stage fright. Learning that the dashing porcine director, Monsieur Le Cochon, is to direct a production of George Barnyard Shaw's "Pigmalion" in her small town, she attends auditions for the role of Eliza Piglittle ... [and eventually gets the part]." cited at Amazon.com

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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