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"Six Characters in Search of an Author" and Other Plays ("Henry IV" and "So It Is, If You Think So") (Paperback)

by Luigi Pirandello (Author), Mark Musa (Introduction, Translator) "The TECHNICIAN, huffing and muttering, picks up the wooden boards and goes off ..." (more)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics; Penguin 20th-Century Classics edition (29 Jun 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 014018922X
ISBN-13: 978-0140189223
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.5 cm

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A compelling assessment of rules, reality and the theatre, 23 Mar 2000

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In 'Six Characters', Pirandello investigates the notion of a theatrical character and the process of its creation (by the author, by the director, and by the preconceptions of the public). While the premise, that six characters, come to life, visit a rehearsal and ask to be 'written' seems confusing, Pirandello's genius makes everything seem clear, while actually signalling the complexity attached to artistic creation and the interaction between the individual and the artistic corpus. It's an incredible play, and well worth reading, even if you can't get to a theatre.

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