Pygmalion A Romance in Five Acts Author:George Bernard Shaw, Feliks Topolski Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain -- first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.