How you explore Pygmalion on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 12 characters, 7 places, 9 objects and 5 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 21 passages of Pygmalion sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Bernard Shaw wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Bernard Shaw instead.
The Pygmalion feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of Pygmalion
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- Covent Garden rain - Higgins bets he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess
- Eliza arrives for lessons - the experiment begins on her terms and his
- The ambassador's party succeeds - Eliza throws the slippers
- Mrs. Higgins's drawing room - Eliza declares her independence
- Doolittle's rise - the undeserving poor made a gentleman against his will
The author's pen in Pygmalion
The passages themselves, Bernard Shaw's own words, as Literah maps it.
- The Heroic Phonetic Reformer
- Shelter From The Rainch. 1
- Freddy Knocks Over Flowersch. 1
- What You Wrote About Mech. 1
- Placing a Man by Speechch. 1
- Passing Her Off As Duchessch. 1
- The Flower Girl Demands Lessonsch. 2
- Picking Up a Girlch. 2
- The Undeserving Poorch. 2
- Shock At The New Waysch. 3
- What Is To Become Of Mech. 4
- What Else Am I To Doch. 4
- Eliza Throws The Slippersch. 4
- I Don't Matterch. 4
- Middle Class Moralitych. 5
- The Beginning of Self Respectch. 5
- If I Can’t Have Kindnessch. 5
- Buy Them Yourselfch. 5
- Doolittle Comes Into Moneych. 5
- Galatea and Pygmalionch. 6
The characters of Pygmalion
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Eliza Doolittlemajor
- Henry Higginsmajor
- Colonel Pickeringmajor
- Alfred Doolittlemajor
- Mrs. Higginsmajor
- Freddy Eynsford Hillsupporting
- Mrs. Pearcesupporting
- Clara Eynsford Hillsupporting
- Mrs. Eynsford Hillsupporting
- Covent Garden Bystandersminor
- Nepommuckmentioned
- Doolittle’s Bridementioned
The locations in Pygmalion
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Covent Garden / St. Paul’s Church Porticomarket portico
- Higgins’s Laboratory / 27A Wimpole Streetlaboratory household
- Mrs. Higgins’s Drawing Roomdrawing room
- The Ambassador’s Garden Partyoffstage society event
- Tottenham Court Road Flower-Selling Worldstreet working world
- St. George’s, Hanover Squarechurch
- The Flower Shop in the Sequelshop
The core concepts in Pygmalion
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Speech as social power
- Transformation without security
- Recognition versus possession
- Class ascent as a trap
- Comedy as moral discomfort
- Practical freedom versus romantic fantasy
- Manners as moral action
- Class made visible through objects
The objects of note in Pygmalion
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Eliza’s Flower Basket / Violets
- Higgins’s Notebook
- Phonograph and Speech Apparatus
- Taxi Cab
- Eliza’s Transformed Clothes and Hired Jewels
- Higgins’s Slippers
- Eliza’s Work-Basket
- Doolittle’s Wedding Clothes
- Money and Respectability
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