Six Plays - Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Caps and Bells, Honest as Can Be, The Vice, A Dream - or Is It? (Paperback)

This unique selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author - an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional play within the play - and Henry IV - a tragicomic tale of a man who falls from a horse and believes himself to be the eponymous Holy Roman Emperor. Preoccupied with the nature of truth and delusion, and treading dangerously on the borderline between sanity and madness, Pirandello's plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of theatre inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov.

General

Imprint:	Calder Publications Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Luigi Pirandello
Translators:	Felicity Firth • Robert Rietti • John Wardle • Donald Watson • Carlo Ardito
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	315
ISBN-13:	978-0-7145-4849-4
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-7145-4849-9
Barcode:	9780714548494

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