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Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus.He is most familiar from Ovid’s Metamorphoses,X,in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue named Galatea he had carved.Venus granted Pygmalion’s wish and Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture changed to a woman under Venus’blessing.This love story becomes a popular subject for numerous artists in later generations.The celebrated Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion is one of most notable creations based on this ancient Greek myth.This thesis aims at doing a comparison between the two versions,analyzing Shaw’s Pygmalion’s succession to the former mythical one and the innovative subversion.
Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, X, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue named Galatea he had carved. Venus granted Pygmalion’s wish and Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture changed to a woman under Venus’blessing.This love story becomes a popular subject for numerous artists in later generations. celebrated Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion is one of most notable creations based on this ancient Greek Greek myth.This thesis at doing a comparison between the two versions, analyzing Shaw’s Pygmalion’s succession to the former mythical one and the innovative subversion.