萧伯纳经典戏剧Pygmalion《卖花女》PPT

• For months, Higggins has trained Eliza to speak properly. 2 trials for Eliza follow.
Act 3
The 1st occurred at Mrs. Higgins' drawing room. It is Mrs. Higgins's 'at home' day and she is entertaining visitors.The visitors are the Eynsford-Hills. Higgins bursts in and tells his mother he has picked up a "common flower girl" whom he has been teaching and he wants his mother to test the girl to see if she is qualified to be a true lady.
伊莉莎.杜利托
Colonel Pickering , a
linguist who has traveled to London from India to see Higgins. An elderly, amiable soldier, Pickering is as confirmed a bachelor as Higgins, but he is a gentleman who treats Eliza with respect and helps to mowk.baidu.comerate Higgins’ mistreatment of her.
Pygmalion
卖花女
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), was an Anglo-Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Freddy Eynsford Hill, the uneducated and unintelligent son
of an impoverished noble family. He is the son and the brother of Mrs. Eynsford Hill and Miss Clara Eynsford Hill. He loves Eliza and haunts the street by Higgins’ house to catch a glimpse of her. He marries her at last and submits to her benevolent despotism. Mrs. Pearce, Henry Higgins’ housekeeper, a very proper and very middle-class woman. Mrs. Pearce, by sheer force of will, enforces a semblance of order and propriety in Higgins’ house.
Act One
• A group of people are sheltering from the rain. Shortly they are joined by a gentleman, Colonel Pickering. While the flower girl Eliza tries to sell flowers to the Colonel, her accent attracts Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics. Eliza worries that Higgins is a police officer and will not calm down until Higgins introduces himself. It soon becomes apparent that he and Colonel Pickering have a shared interest in phonetics;
Act One
Act Two
• Next Day. Eliza comes to Higgin's home and tells Higgins that she will pay for lessons.
Act Two
Meanwhile, A l f r e d Doolittle , Eliza's father who ha s no pater nal interest in his daughter's welfare comes to demand his daughters return. He appears with the sole purpose of getting money out of Higgins. The scene ends with Higgins telling Pickering that they really have got a difficult job on their hands.
阿尔弗雷德.杜利托
Mrs. Higgins, Henry’s mother, a woman of taste. She has asked her barbaric son to stay away when she is receiving guests. Her poise and competence help to bring some order into the lives of those around her.
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Alfred Doolittle, a dustman, Eliza’s
father. Doolittle is distinguished by a good voice, an original mind, and a complete absence of conscience. He plans to blackmail Higgins, mistakenly thinking that Higgins has taken Eliza as his mistress. Higgins and Pickering are so delighted by the scoundrel’s straightforwardness that they give him five pounds. Doolittle is made middle class by Higgin's letter to Ezra D. Wannafeller, an American philanthropist, Higgins calls Doolittle “the most original moralist” in England. Wannafeller leaves Doolittle an income of 3 thousand pounds a year.
Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character.
Character
Henry Higgins ,
a linguistic scientist. A robust and handsome fo r t y - y e a r - o l d b a c h e l o r. H e i s absolutely uncivilized in his relations with people. Although he firmly believes himself to be kindhearted and considerate.
Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl. Dirty and
ignorant, Eliza comes to Higgins and pathetically begs him to teach her to speak well enough to run a respectable flower shop. Grown fond of Higgins and grateful to him, Eliza tries to please him and is ignored. Gradually disappointed at Higgin's ingnorance, she left the 2 men in the nignt after the embassy reception.
Nepommuck
a spectacularly bewhiskered Hungarian. At the embassy reception at which Eliza is passed off as nobility, Nepommuck, a former pupi l of H ig gins who makes his living as a translator, testifies that Eliza is certainly of royal blood, perhaps a princess.
《魔鬼的门徒》The Devil's Disciple 《人与超人》Man and Superman 《伤心之家》Heartbreak House 《华伦夫人的职业》Mrs.Warren's Profession 《巴巴拉少校》Major Barbara
《苹果车》The Apple Cart
《长生》（《千岁人》）Back to Methuselah 《凯撒和克娄巴特拉》Caesar and Cleopatra
To assert herself, Eliza threatens to go into competition with Higgins, using his own methods of teaching proper speech. Higgins rudely congratulates Eliza on her assertiveness and welcomes her as a friend and equal. Eliza marries not Higgins but Freddy Hill. They open a flower shop that, with Pickering’s help, finally becomes prosperous.
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Higgins makes a bet with another scientist, Colonel Pickering, that he can, in six months, make a Cockney flower girl speak so well that she can be passed off as a duchess.
Major Works
《卡希尔.拜伦的职业》Cashel Byron's Profession 《武器和人》Arms and the Man 《鲧夫的房产》Widowers' Houses 《英国佬的另一个岛》John Bull's Other Island
《圣女贞德》Saint Joan 《卖花女》Pygmalion