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Pygmalion
[ pig-mey-lee-uhn, -meyl-yuhn ]
noun
- Classical Mythology. a sculptor and king of Cyprus who carved an ivory statue of a maiden and fell in love with it. It was brought to life, in response to his prayer, by Aphrodite.
- (italics) a comedy (1912) by George Bernard Shaw.
Pygmalion
/ pɪɡˈmeɪlɪən /
noun
- Greek myth a king of Cyprus, who fell in love with the statue of a woman he had sculpted and which his prayers brought to life as Galatea
Pygmalion
1- A play by George Bernard Shaw , about a professor, Henry Higgins, who trains a poor, uneducated girl, Eliza Doolittle, to act and speak like a lady. Shaw based his story on a tale from Greek mythology about a sculptor who carves a statue of a woman and falls in love with it ( see under “Mythology and Folklore” ).
Pygmalion
2- In classical mythology , a sculptor who at first hated women but then fell in love with a statue he made of a woman. He prayed to Venus that she would find him a woman like the statue. Instead, Venus made the statue come to life.
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He performed the role of Eliza Doolittle from Shaw's play Pygmalion, and the part of Cesario in Twelfth Night - not realising the part was female character Viola disguised in male clothing.
Having been friend-zoned, Penelope doesn’t try to include herself in the pool of excited maids throwing themselves at him, enlisting him to play Pygmalion and provide her charm lessons instead.
As more than one observer has pointed out, “Poor Things’” riff on the Pygmalion myth makes it this year’s stealth “Barbie,” and it’s no less ebullient.
You can imagine the Pygmalion myth resonating with Lanthimos, and not just because he’s Greek.
I replied, crumpling my script of “Pygmalion,” which I’d been memorizing for my scene study class.
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