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《皮格马利翁》 教学重点和目标： 西方戏剧的起源、戏剧的要素、类型和功能，以及戏剧区别于其他文学形式的特点。 作家萧伯纳的生平、作品和创作风格。 作品对原型神话的超越和颠覆。 学生需要掌握该剧的主题：对中产阶级道德价值观的嘲讽；对“淑女”“绅士”这些概念空洞所指的讽刺；对下层社会人民苦难生活的同情和对两性关系的思考。 教学难点： 《皮格马利翁》的神话原型来源于两方面：古罗马诗人奥维德的《变形记》和《灰姑娘与水晶鞋》的童话故事。作者通过鲜明的人物塑造、出人意料的情节安排（如高潮的设置、开放式结局）和主题思想的丰富和变化等方面颠覆了原型神话的结构和主题。 教学方法： 教师讲解与学生讨论相结合。 课堂活动： 教师讲座；学生在细读文本的基础上，参与课上的讨论；学生戏剧表演。 作业安排： 对比1913年戏剧版本《皮格马利翁》和电影版本《窈窕淑女》之间的异同 学生自导自演其中的片断，体验戏剧表演的过程和感受。 教学内容： Bernard Shaw: his life Born in Dublin in 1856 to a middle-class Protestant family. His alcoholic father was an unsuccessful merchant (claimed to be descended from Macduff, the slayer of Macbeth). To his mother, he was devotedly attached. He married Charlotte Payne-Townshend in 1898, but it is known that he never touched her once. He flirted with beautiful women but never had further committed relations. He was member of Fabian Society, a middle-class socialist group that aimed at the transformation of English government and society. He was quietly a member of the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology with young men agitating for homosexual liberation. His literary career and achievements: He was considered by some critics the second greatest English playwright behind only Shakespeare. He died at the age of 94, a socialist, semi-feminist vegetarian. His works include 60 plays, 5 novels, 3 volumes of music criticism, 4 volumes of dance and theatrical criticism, and heaps of social commentary, political theory, and correspondence. It has been said that “a day never passes without a performance of some Shaw play being given somewhere in the world.” One of Shaw’s greatest contributions as a modern dramatist is in establishing drama as serious literature, no less important than the novel. His Works (textbook) Pygmalion Myth: it derives its name from the famous story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Pygmalion is disgusted by the loose and shameful lives of the women in his era, women of Amathus, the first women to become prostitutes, and decides to live alone and u