Pygmalion by george bernard shaw6/23/2023 I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality. Now I've fifty, and not a decent week's wages among the lot of them. Summary Read our full plot summary and analysis of Pygmalion, scene by scene break-downs, and more. A year ago I hadn't a relative in the world except two or three that wouldn't speak to me. Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw that was first performed in 1913. In the house I'm not let do a hand's turn for myself: somebody else must do it and touch me for it. Now they finds out that I'm not a healthy man and cant live unless they looks after me twice a day. Same with the doctors: used to shove me out of the hospital before I could hardly stand on my legs, and nothing to pay. When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me off, and got shut of me and got me shut of him as quick as he could. You mean it's a good thing for you, I says. It's a fine thing for you, says my solicitor. In 1956, the play was adapted into the musical My Fair Lady, which accompanies. Now I am worrited tied neck and heels and everybody touches me for money. Scandalous at the time of its premire, Pygmalion is a witty comedy. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money when I wanted it, same as I touched you, Henry Higgins. “Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy.
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