Pygmalion (play)

For other works with this title, see Pygmalion.

Pygmalion
Illustration depicting Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle
Written byGeorge Bernard Shaw
Characters
  • Professor Henry Higgins
  • Colonel Pickering
  • Eliza Doolittle
  • Alfred Doolittle
  • Mrs Pearce
  • Mrs Higgins
  • Mrs Eynsford-Hill
  • Clara Eynsford-Hill
  • Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Date premiered16 October 1913 (1913-10-16)
Place premieredHofburg Theatre in Vienna, Austria
GenreRomantic comedy, social criticism
SettingLondon, England

Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented on stage in German. Its English-language premiere took place at His Majesty's Theatre in London's West End in April 1914 and starred Herbert Beerbohm Tree as phonetics professor Henry Higgins and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Cockney flower-girl Eliza Doolittle.