[ SECRET POST #4629 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4629 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

YES! This, so much! Shaw straight up said that he hated the adapted ending, and the last thing she would be doing is getting his slippers! And this is x2 since Higgins also calls himself a 'confirmed bachelor', which was slang for being gay.


"Shaw never intended his protagonists — the undaunted Cockney flower-girl, Eliza Doolittle, and the self-satisfied phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, who teaches her to speak “like a lady” — to end up romantically linked. In a wonderfully on-brand move, he even wrote a grouchy postscript for his play in which he explicitly outlined Eliza’s future and put the kibosh on any hook-up with Higgins: “The rest of the story need not be shown in action,” he sniffed, “and indeed, would hardly need telling if our imaginations were not so enfeebled by their lazy dependence on the ready-makes and reach-me-downs of the ragshop in which Romance keeps its stock of ‘happy endings’ to misfit all stories.”"
I'm actually surprised people still think they would be together, of work as a romance, when that is clearly not the case!

Quote from: https://www.vulture.com/2018/04/theater-review-an-unaccustomed-new-approach-to-my-fair-lady.html
More interesting reading on Shaw's opinion, the ending to Eliza's story, here: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shaw/george_bernard/pygmalion/postscript.html