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賣花女 (戲劇)《賣花女》，原名《皮革馬利翁》(Pygmalion) 是愛爾蘭劇作家蕭伯納的戏剧。皮革馬利翁原是羅馬神話中的一位雕刻家的名字，一生不愛女色，卻愛上了自己刻的雕像。這尊雕像令他魂牽夢縈，最後他去請求維納斯女神成全。維納斯讓皮革馬利翁用手碰觸雕像，雕像變成了一位活生生的美貌女子。皮革馬利翁相當高興，給她取名伽拉忒婭 (Galatea)，並帶她去感謝維納斯。蕭伯納以這個故事為藍本，以賣花女一劇表現出皮格馬利翁和伽拉忒婭可能會發生的問題。本劇曾於1938年翻拍成黑白電影， 1956年，此劇改編為音樂劇《窈窕淑女》 (My Fair Lady)。1964年，音樂劇拍成同名電影，改由奧黛麗·赫本飾演伊萊莎。Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassadors garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon讽刺 of the rigid刻板的 British class system of the day and a comment on womens independence, packaged as a romantic comedy.InspirationsShaw created Eliza Doolittle specifically for Mrs Patrick Campbell, partly as a flirtatious challenge and partly to tease her for her social pretensions, which he felt hampered her growth as an artist.[1] Her affected diction onstage (even in Shakespeare), which both he and Oscar Wilde instantly recognized as that of a suburban social climber,[2] was at odds with her considerable abilities, and likely provoked the Higgins in Shaw to a great degree. The idea came to him in 1897, when Mrs. Pat was under contract to Johnston Forbes-Robertson and at the height of her youthful fascination and glamour. Writing to Ellen Terry in September of that year, he mentions Forbess rapscallionly flower girl; the next sentence is, Caesar and Cleopatra has been driven clean out of my head by a play I want to write for them in which he shall be a west end gentleman and she an east end dona in an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers.[3]The reformer England needs today is an energetic phonetic enthusiast: that is why I have made such a one the hero of a popular play.[4] The success of Pygmalion drew attention to the science of phonetics and speculation arose