Artists Pay Tribute To Late David Bowie (15+ Pics) The world lost another star yesterday with the passing of David Robert Jones, also known as David Bowie. The 69-year-old died just two days after his birthday and the release of his latest album, Blackstar.
In A Nutshell. Pygmalion, written in 1912 by George Bernard Shaw and first performed two years later, tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (speech), who bets his friend that he can pass off a poor flower girl with a Cockney accent as a duchess by teaching her to speak with an upper class accent.
There is no UR-fairy tale as such--although the version of Cupid and Psyche by Apulieus c. 125 AD comes close. . The Disney version Cinderella with her fairy godmother was written by Charles Perrault in 1697 who probably got a version from Basile who published a version in 1637. Perrault added the fairy godmother and the glass slippers. Disney added the singing mice and birds.