My Fair Lady. a transdisciplinary introduction

The impulse for the book is provided by the guiding principle of metamorphosis - on the one hand as body transformation, on the other hand as a figure of thought. Thus, different transformation processes of the musical are illuminated and contextualized: cultural-historical and musical transformations and fault lines; genre changes from the disturbing myth via the disillusionment character of the satire to the stage and screen romance; reception-aesthetic transformations from Ovid's 'Pygmalion' via reinterpretations in the 19th century to George Bernard Shaw's dramatic disenchantment. my Fair Lady is an introduction for students and for all readers interested in culture.