This play is based on the Greek myth of <strong>Pygmalion</strong>. It tells the story of HenryHiggins a professor of phonetics based on phonetician Henry Sweet... » 

This play is based on the Greek myth of Pygmalion. It tells the story of HenryHiggins a professor of phonetics based on phonetician Henry Sweet who makesa bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off aCockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a refined society lady by teaching herhow to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In theprocess Higgins and Doolittle grow close but she ultimately rejects hisdomineering ways and declares she will marry Freddy EynsfordHill a youngpoor gentleman. «