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Spike Heels

Theresa Rebeck
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37 pages • 1 hour read

Theresa Rebeck

Spike Heels

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

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    • Essay Topics

    1.

    Research Ovid’s “Pygmalion,” George Bernard Shaw’s play, and the musical adaptation My Fair Lady. How does Georgie compare with Galatea, Shaw’s Eliza Doolittle, and the musical’s version of Eliza?

    2.

    How do the two male characters represent different aspects of men’s need to control women?

    3.

    Discuss the play’s approach to character. As a problem play, how does it flatten its roles to present social and cultural ideas, rather than present fully-developed characters?

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