The paper is an interpretation of Shaw's Pygmalion from the point of view of the experiment that is performed by the main character with the purpose of giving/bestowing his knowledge on his subject. Whether this process of giving is unilateral or whether it becomes in turn a challenge, an invitation, a reparatory act or a temptation is one of the main issues of our paper. We shall debate upon the possibility of the subject/recipient swapping places with her donor and, thus, upon the bilateral nature of the process of gift-giving. Authorship vs. creation and Shaw's innovations, be they thematic, stylistic, orthographical, didactic, are some other aspects dealt with in this paper.