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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR; HENRY IV; SO IT IS(IF YOU THINK SO)
Translator - Mark Musa
Introduction by - Mark Musa
Penguin Classics
Paperback
: 29 Jun 1995
£13.99
Synopsis
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 '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.Table of contents
Selected Further Reading
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Henry IV
So It Is (If You Think So)
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780140189223
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 224
Published : 29 Jun 1995
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR; HENRY IV; SO IT IS(IF YOU THINK SO)
Translator - Mark Musa
Introduction by - Mark Musa
£13.99
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