Bernard Shaw
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The third play by George Bernard Shaw in which he exposes the social hypocrisy of the nineteenth century through a sarcastic comedy about Mrs. Kitty Warren, a successful prostitute, and her daughter Vivie, who, upon learning the truth about Kitty's career, walks out of her mother's life and wealth.
43) My fair lady
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Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the...
