![]() She is the one who first sees the difficulty of what is to happen to Eliza after Higgins and Pickering have finished their experiment with her. Pearce Professor Higgins' housekeeper of long standing. Eynsford-Hill A lady of the upper-middle class who is in a rather impoverished condition but is still clinging to her gentility.Ĭlara Eynsford-Hill Her daughter she tries to act the role of the modem, advanced young person.įreddy Eynsford-Hill Her son he is a pleasant young man who is enchanted by Eliza upon first meeting her. Higgins Henry Higgins' mother, who thoroughly loves her son but also thoroughly disapproves of his manners, his language, and his social behavior. Nearly two decades later it was adapted into a hugely successful musical by the songwriting team Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. First performed in 1913, it went on to become an Oscar winning film in 1938. He is courteous and polite to Eliza, and he shares in Higgins' experiments in phonetics in teaching Eliza to speak as a duchess. Among the scores of plays written by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, 'Pygmalion' is his most beloved comedy. ![]() ![]() He has come to England to meet the famous Professor Henry Higgins. She is probably twenty years younger than Higgins.Īlfred Doolittle Eliza's father he is a dustman with a sonorous voice and a Welsh accent, who proudly believes in his position as a member of the "undeserving poor."Ĭolonel Pickering A distinguished retired officer and the author of Spoken Sanskrit. ![]() ![]() 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.Įliza Doolittle She is an uneducated, uncouth "guttersnipe," the flower girl whom Higgins (for a dare) decides to mold into a duchess. ![]()
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