George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion": Henry Higgins Is A Coarse Rude Man The title of this play is called Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. This is a play about a man who picks a poor person off the street who sells flowers named Eliza Doolittle. The man's name is Henry Higgins. Henry makes a bet with another man named Pickering. The bet was to see if Henry could make Eliza, the poor girl from the streets, into a elegant, beautiful girl with good manners. But I think that Henry gets too attached to Eliza so when she overhears Henry and Pickering talking about how they than