My ninth grader is reading this play this week for English. Although I have seen the play and movie of My Fair Lady, I had never read the original play. I was able to basically read it one day.
Henry Higgins, a phonetic expert, bets Colonel Pickering that he can teach Liza, a common girl, to speak like an upper-class woman in six months.
Warnings/points to discuss: Higgins's treatment of women, of Liza and of people in "lower" classes, the word "slut" mentioned, some swearing, some kissing, social classes and their ramifications
-I own this book/play.
Pair with the Greek myth Pygmalion and Galatea.
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