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Stand Perfectly Still: Statues, Nudity, and the Pygmalion Myth in Victorian Theatre and Culture

Wallen, Maggie Elizabeth2020

… on the myth of Pygmalion as presented in W. S. Gilbert’s Pygmalion and Galatea and George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. I argue that the image of the moving statue, especially in the melodramatic tradition of the pose plastique and tableau vivant, creates instability for the viewer by evoking …

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