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To what extent do class and identity create comic situations in George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’?
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ABSTRACT: Two of the pre-eminent themes of Pygmalion, class and identity, create comic situations whilst subtly propagandising Shaw’s socialist views. To a large extent Eliza, the protagonist, is responsible for the comedy in her attempts to elevate herself by means of a bath, Higgins and Pickeri...
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