Then there is Colonel Pickering who is conceived as a foil to Higgins too is a student of Phonetics, has already written a book Spoken Sanskrit and has come all the way from India to meet Prof. While he is a celebrated scholar, he is rough and uncultured in his ways, swears dreadfully, is untidy and slovenly in his manners, and is authoritative and domineering. He can tell the locality in which a person resides simply by hearing the dialect spoken by him or her. He is devoted to his subject and is an expert in his knowledge of various dialects spoken in the city of London. However, these characters are among the immortals of literature and they linger long in the memory once we have made their acquaintance. The number of characters is strictly limited. The canvas of the play is not a crowded one. Cavendish Square, Hanover Square, and Wimbledon Common are some other London localities to which we are introduced. We are also taken to a foreign Embassy in London. Act Il takes us to Wimpole Street and Act III is laid in Chelsea Embankment, a fashionable London locality. From there it shifts for a moment to Drury Lane and Lisson Grove, a London slum. It opens in Covent Gardena wholesale fruit-and-vegetable market at the corner of Tottenham Court Road.
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