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Mme. Defarge

(8,935 posts) Sat May 20, 2023, 10:11 AM May 2023

Happy Eliza Doolittle Day!

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Happy Eliza Doolittle Day! (Original Post) Mme. Defarge May 2023 OP

Awesome! sdfernando May 2023 #1

Thank you. Tea and crumpets later. niyad May 2023 #2

it is saturday, I plan to DO as LITTLE as possible dembotoz May 2023 #3

Great show, but it ended in a way Shaw never intended Wednesdays May 2023 #4

I always thought the ending to MFL was "off", glad to know my suspicion was right. Axelrods_Typewriter May 2023 #5

Read it here: Wednesdays May 2023 #6

sdfernando

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1. Awesome!

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Sat May 20, 2023, 10:45 AM

May 2023

I'm going to dance all night!

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niyad

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2. Thank you. Tea and crumpets later.

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Sat May 20, 2023, 10:46 AM

May 2023

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dembotoz

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3. it is saturday, I plan to DO as LITTLE as possible

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Sat May 20, 2023, 11:00 AM

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Wednesdays

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4. Great show, but it ended in a way Shaw never intended

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Sat May 20, 2023, 11:17 AM

May 2023

George Bernard Shaw had a dim view of supercilious people like Henry Higgins, and he never intended for Eliza Doolittle to hook up with him. In fact, Shaw wrote a kind of sequel to Pygmalian in 1916 describing how Eliza ended up marrying Freddy and opening a flower shop in London near where she was originally found selling flowers on the street.

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