The Drama of Luigi Pirandello
The Drama of Luigi Pirandello

Author: Domenico Vittorini

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1935-01-29

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1512821284

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Pirandello, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a little known to most English readers. Too few of his plays and stories have been translated. This hook, therefore, serves the double purpose of introducing the Italian genius through a summary of all his dramatic work and interpreting his accomplishments fron an artistic viewpoint. As a background for his criticism, the Domenico Vittorini shows first how Pirandello's compassionate pessimism and tragic mockery resulted from his own tortured existence and in what way his art is relates to Italian literary tradition and contemporary thought. Proceeding chronologically, Pirandello's growth is traced from the elementary naturalism of his early writing, through his more reflective plays, to the crowning achievements of later years in which dramatic situations are approached from a highly intellectualized point of view.

Tales of Suicide
Tales of Suicide

Author: Luigi Pirandello

Publisher: Branden Books

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 9780937832318

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Suicide, the act of killing oneself voluntarily and intentionally, is clearly one of the most important themes developed by Pirandello during his long literary career. Although he never focused on self-destruction as an end in itself, he made ample use of it to dramatise his tragic view of the human condition. Indeed, this theme recurs with astonishing frequency in his short stories, play and novels. It even appears sporadically in his poetry.

Three Plays by Luigi Pirandello
Three Plays by Luigi Pirandello

Author: Luigi Pirandello

Publisher:

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781484029824

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Includes the following plays:SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR,HENRY IV,RIGHT YOU ARE! (IF YOU THINK SO).

Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre
Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre

Author: Susan Bassnett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1134351143

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First Published in 1993. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. This collection of documents is the first attempt in English to bring together a body of material on Luigi Pirandello as multi-faceted man of the theatre. Because relatively few of his works have been easily available to English language readers, he is thought of most frequently as a playwright, the author of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV in particular, and his contribution to theatre, both in theory and in practice, has tended to be overlooked. Emphasising his role as a director, the book traces the rise and fall of his own theatre company, the Teatro d’Arte where he struggled to instil new practices and comments on Pirandello’s attempts during the years of Fascism to give Italy a national theatre in a European context.

Naked Masks
Naked Masks

Author: Luigi Pirandello

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1957-09-01

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0452010829

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This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century. Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally original plays dramatize with force and eloquence the isolation of the individual from society and from himself. The editor, Eric Bentley, is an international theater authority. In addition to the Introduction and the biographical and bibliographical material in the Appendices, Mr. Bentley has prepared for this volume the first English translations of the play Liolà and Pirandello’s important “Preface” to Six Characters in Search of an Author. Included Plays: Liolà It Is So! (If You Think So) Henry IV Six Characters in Search of an Author Each in His Own Way

Plays
Plays

Author: Luigi Pirandello

Publisher: Alma Classics

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781847491442

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Plays
Plays

Author: Luigi Pirandello

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780810116528

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Luigi Pirandello is best known for his ability to create farcical tragedies that pit reality against appearance in such a way that objective truth is never revealed. Time magazine called Pirandello's work a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd -- the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in Ionesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In new translations by acclaimed playwright and translator Eric Bentley, these versions of four of Pirandello's most celebrated plays -- Six Characters in Search of an Author, Emperor Henry, The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, and Right You Are -- are considered to be the standards for American productions. They capture the playwright's unique voice with remarkable precision, while at the same time attending to the rigors of the American stage.