LITERATURE QUESTIONS
BRITISH LITERATURE
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A doctor and a flower girl
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An engineer and his wife
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A writer and a maid
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A philosopher and his friend
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Detailed explanation-1: -Its English-language premiere took place at Her Majesty’s Theatre in the 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 .
Detailed explanation-2: -Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady.
Detailed explanation-3: -Professor Henry Higgins Higgins is a forty-year-old bachelor who specializes in phonetics and who is an acclaimed authority on the subject of dialects, accents, and phonetics. Eliza Doolittle She is an uneducated, uncouth “guttersnipe, ” the flower girl whom Higgins (for a dare) decides to mold into a duchess.
Detailed explanation-4: -Professor Henry Higgins. Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics who plays Pygmalion to Eliza Doolittle’s Galatea. Eliza Doolittle. “She is not at all a romantic figure.” So is she introduced in Act I. Colonel Pickering. Alfred Doolittle. Mrs. Freddy Eynsford Hill.
Detailed explanation-5: -Henry Higgins: Expert phonetician and spoiled eccentric. Eliza Doolittle: Poor flower girl turned linguistic protégé. Colonel Pickering: A wealthy bachelor and expert in Indian dialects. Mrs. Alfred Doolittle: Eliza’s father, a common dustman, who begs for change to spend at the pub. More items