George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion is probably better known through the 1956 musical that it inspired, Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, which was famously turned into a film featuring Audrey ...

This Shaw revival has wonderful moments but there is little spark between Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins In its preface, George Bernard Shaw claimed the success of his 1912 play was proof that all ...

Ever notice that when someone expects something of you or has faith in you, you seem to have that extra push to succeed? Or that you are able to rise to the occasion? The practice of medicine — no ...

Linda: The myth of Pygmalion is told in Ovid's Metaphorphoses. Pygmalion was a gifted young sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. Pygmalion had strong misgivings about women ...

Poor Professor Henry Higgins. Whatever would he make of a world where the Queen’s English has come undone by emojis, acronyms and the scourge that is uptalk? Still, George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” ...

Today's NY Times (Sun 11 Oct) had an interesting article by Nicholas Kristof about why Asians do so well academically and economically in the U.S. ("The Asian Advantage"). Unfortunately Kristof's ...

It’s always a delight to encounter the disputatious wit of George Bernard Shaw, a playwright who thought comedy was at its fizzy best when ideas were allowed to collide in the service of public ...