Pygmalion

This document provides a summary of the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. It discusses how the play is about a professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, who makes a bet that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a lady by teaching her to speak properly. The document then summarizes each act of the play, highlighting how Eliza's speech is transformed through lessons and how she eventually rejects Higgins' domineering ways. The document also discusses how the play illustrates various technical and social aspects of phonetics.