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22%OFFLuigi Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays - 9780140189223 - V9780140189223
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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

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Description for Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays Paperback. .
Pirandello (1867-1936) 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 (If You Think So) the townspeople exercise a morbid curiosity attempting to discover ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140189223
SKU
V9780140189223
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About Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was born of rich, middle-class parents in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily. As a young man he studied at the Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn, where he gained his doctorate in 1891. His first published work, Mal giocondo (1889), was a collection of poems. It was followed by other volumes of poems, critical essays, novels, short stories, and over forty plays. ... Read more

Reviews for Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “The essence of Pirandello is not his intellectuality. It is his conversion of the intellect into passion.” —Eric Bentley

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