Shaw B., Lerner A., Loewe F.: Pygmalion. A Romance in Five Acts and My Fair Lady. Based on Show's Pygmalion

I'he ancient Greeks told the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. Then Aphrodite, taking piry on this man, whose love could not reach beyond the barrier of stone, brought the statue to life and gave her to Pygmalion as his bride. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .