버나드 쇼의 피그말리온 . The Book of Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw

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버나드 쇼의 피그말리온 . The Book of Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
5부쟉인 쇼의 이희극의 요점은 꽃 파는 아가씨가 언어교정과 예절훈련으로 계급상승을 이루는 이야기를 통해 인간 존엄성의 진정한 가치에 대한 이야기.
피그말리온Pygmalion 은. 그리스신화에 나오는 키프로스의 왕. 피그말리온 ,자기가 만든 상아상 Galatea를 연모한 Cyprus 섬의 왕·조각가. 1913년 발표. 1914년 초연. 중년의 독신인 음성학자인 헨리 히긴즈는 우연히 만난 꽃파는 소녀 일라이자의 심한 사투리를 3개월 내에 고쳐서 후작부인으로 행세시킬 수 있다고 장담하고 친구 피칼링 대령과 내기하여 실제로 이 훈련에 성공하나 그때에 그날 밤 학문적 실험의 성공에 도취한 헨리가 자기에게 전혀 무관심한 것에 화가 난 일라이자는 집을 나가게된다. 이튿날 헨리가 그녀를 쫓아왔으나 결국 자기를 여자로서 생각해주는 것이 아님을 알고 헨리를 떠난다. 이 극은 여기서 끝나고, 후에 기술에 의하면 그녀는 젊은 숭배자 프레디와 결혼한다.

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버나드 쇼의 피그말리온 . The Book of Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
PYGMALION
BERNARD SHAW
1912
contents
ACT 1
ACT 2
ACT 3
ACT 4
ACT 5

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버나드 쇼의 피그말리온 . The Book of Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
PREFACE TO PYGMALION.
A Professor of Phonetics.
As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have
supplied in its due place. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach
their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it
sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other
Englishman hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is
not accessible even to Englishmen. 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. There have been
heroes of that kind crying in the wilderness for many years past. When I became interested in
the subject towards the end of the eighteen-seventies, Melville Bell was dead; but Alexander J.
Ellis was still a living patriarch, with an impressive head always covered by a velvet skull cap,
for which he would apologize to public meetings in a very courtly manner. He and Tito
Pagliardini, another phonetic veteran, were men whom it was impossible to dislike. Henry
Sweet, then a young man, lacked their sweetness of character: he was about as conciliatory to
conventional mortals as Ibsen or Samuel Butler. His great ability as a phonetician (he was, I
think, the best of them all at his job) would have entitled him to high official recognition, and
perhaps enabled him to popularize his subject, but for his Satanic contempt for all academic
dignitaries and persons in general who thought more of Greek than of phonetics. Once, in the
days when the Imperial Institute rose in South Kensington, and Joseph Chamberlain was
booming the Empire, I induced the editor of a leading monthly review to commission an article
from Sweet on the imperial importance of his subject. When it arrived, it contained nothing but
a savagely derisive attack on a professor of language and literature whose chair Sweet regarded
as proper to a phonetic expert only. The article, being libelous, had to be returned as impossible;
and I had to renounce my dream of dragging its author into the limelight. When I met him
afterwards, for the first time for many years, I found to my astonishment that he, who had been
a quite tolerably presentable young man, had actually managed by sheer scorn to alter his
personal appearance until he had become a sort of walking repudiation of Oxford and all its
traditions. It must have been largely in his own despite that he was squeezed into something
called a Readership of phonetics there. The future of phonetics rests probably with his pupils,
who all swore by him; but nothing could bring the man himself into any sort of compliance
with the university, to which he nevertheless clung by divine right in an intensely Oxonian way.
I daresay his papers, if he has left any, include some satires that may be published without too
destructive results fifty years hence. He was, I believe, not in the least an ill-natured man: very
much the opposite, I should say; but he would not suffer fools gladly.

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