Pygmalion‚ premiered in Vienna (October 1913) was Bernard Shaw’s first play to enjoy real financial success in England and has remained his most popular work. The London premiere (1914) was sensational‚ the reviews like love letters‚ and the play has enjoyed success ever since. The filmed version (1938) and the musical My Fair Lady (1956‚ filmed in 1964) were equally successful and only added to the stature of the original. Despite its seemingly plastic adaptability‚ Pygmalion is actually a carefully
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Alex Kell 12 Winchester English Standard Speech Distinctive Voice Pygmalion and Rain Man Distinctive voices give us a small insight into how we‚ as people‚ perceive and make judgments about each another. Good morning ladies and gentlemen‚ In any relationship between two people‚ there will always be one who takes on the dominant role through Voice. It’s their choice of what they say and how they say it that gives insight into their character. Some characteristics of voice that
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possibility of finding a prospective life partner is very high. In addition‚ we cannot deny that age‚ gender‚ the social environment that we have now‚ and the climate of the corporate culture itself could foster for the development of what we call office romance. Even though of the work setting in the company is conservative‚ however‚ the fast-paced environment and the higher number of young professionals combined with the greater number of the male populace may seem to contribute to this growing number of
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creator. The ideas‚ values and plotline are redefined in a new context to appeal to a different audience. Like all texts‚ both Pygmalion‚ written by George Bernard Shaw and Pretty Woman‚ directed by Gary Marshall‚ reflect values‚ beliefs and attitudes of the time‚ nearly 80 years apart. The use of different forms highlights the different intended audiences. On one hand‚ Pygmalion was a play intended for the upper echelons on society. Pretty woman was created with the intention to blockbuster so it was
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Romance in Medieval England Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………..page 1 Chapter One………………………………….page 2 Origins and Understanding Concepts Chapter Two………………………………….page 6 Courtly Love Chapter Three………………………………...page 8 Devotional and Mystical Romances Conclusion…………………………………...page 10 Biography…………………………………….page 11 Introduction What was “love” in the Middle Ages? What did it mean in Medieval England? These questions present a
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Arthurian literature. The grail started out as a literary creation by Chretien De Troyes for his story Perceval and has expanded to other tales such as Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and The Quest for the Holy Grail‚ which can be found in The Romance of Arthur. Although there is somewhat a consistency revolving around the grail in these stories‚ each piece has a different perspective of the grail and how it is portrayed. After analyzing all three stories stated above‚ it has come to my attention
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Pygmalion is perhaps Shaw ’s most famous play and‚ ironically‚ it is among his most abused and misinterpreted ones. Almost everyone knows the basic outlines of this story of the Cockney flower girl who is almost magically transformed into a duchess by taking speech (phonetic) lessons from her famous professor. The abuse comes partly from the fact that Shaw subtitled his play‚ "A Romance." In the popular adaptations (the film of 1938 and the musical My Fair Lady)‚ "romance" was written into the script
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My Chemical Romance. Gerard‚ Mikey and Frank all had drug problems. Mikey and Gerard‚ on top of that had alcohol problems. They got themselves better. They knew no one else could help them. What encouraged them to get better? Themselves‚ and the music. Ray had the absolutely awful job of having to watch them go through all of this‚ on top of him trying to be the perfect guitarist. Frank would do drugs over the weekend‚ and wake up on Monday not knowing anything that had happened. Mikey felt
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Sonali Madahar Vlahoulis WST 374 26 February 2017 Twilight’s Sparkly Romance Twilight is the first of the series of fictional romance novels published by Stephanie Meyer. Originally published in October 2005‚ Meyer formed an eternal love story that was later developed into a full movie series. Despite the vampire themed love having its own unique take on the common romance novel‚ it has every characteristic of the typical “bored housewife” genre. The first book consists of only two main characters:
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This theme was chosen to present the Romance Genre to the students to help give a little information and a little history about a specific genre. The students will have three films that have been chosen to illustrate and present some education on why people enjoy a great genre like romance. The genre romance has a theme that analyzes any concerns with love that usually includes love triangles‚ love at first sight‚ sacrificial love and forbidden love. The romance genre has two subcategories they are
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