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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

Luigi Pirandello
3.9/5 ( ratings)
Pirandello is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello's most popular and controversial work in which six characters invade the stage and demand to be included in the play. The tragedy Henry IV dramatizes the lucid madness of a man who may be King. In So It Is the townspeople exercise a morbid curiosity attempting to discover 'the truth' about the Ponza family. Each of these plays can lay claim to being Pirandello's masterpiece, and in exploring the nature of human personality each one stretches the resources of drama to their limits.
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Release
June 29, 1995
ISBN
014018922X
ISBN 13
9780140189223

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

Luigi Pirandello
3.9/5 ( ratings)
Pirandello is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello's most popular and controversial work in which six characters invade the stage and demand to be included in the play. The tragedy Henry IV dramatizes the lucid madness of a man who may be King. In So It Is the townspeople exercise a morbid curiosity attempting to discover 'the truth' about the Ponza family. Each of these plays can lay claim to being Pirandello's masterpiece, and in exploring the nature of human personality each one stretches the resources of drama to their limits.
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Release
June 29, 1995
ISBN
014018922X
ISBN 13
9780140189223

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