Bernard Shaw

"Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell...

"The comedy is set during the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885. Raina Petkoff is a young Bulgarian woman who is engaged to Sergius Saranoff. He is a hero in the war, and Raina idolizes him. One night, a Swiss mercenary soldier in the Serbian army, Captain Bluntschli, climbs in through her bedroom balcony window and threatens to shoot Raina if she shouts for help. When Russian and Bulgarian troops burst in to search the house, Raina hides him so he won't...

Dramatizes the trial, career, and execution of Joan of Arc.

Taking place on a single day in May 1909, a self-made millionaire and his family invite their future nobleman in-law for a visit to their estate in Surrey, England.

Presents a humorous play concerning a beautiful woman's choice between two men who love her.