(Graham Elliott's article  is taken from the December-January 2025 issue of The Critic.) We meet Professor Higgins in Pygmalion (1912) eavesdropping on the impending subject of his sociolinguistic experiment, taking notes on the wretched flower girl's stretched, strangulated speech. He boasts of placing a man's accent to within two miles in London, "sometimes within two streets". George […]
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:07AM on December 29, 2024