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This 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.

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Something close to classical tragedy that evokes our primal fears… * The Guardian *

Six Plays Six Characters in Search of an Author

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    A Paperback / softback by Luigi Pirandello, Felicity Firth, Robert Rietti

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      Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/12/2019
      ISBN13: 9780714548494, 978-0714548494
      ISBN10: 0714548499

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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.

      Trade Review
      Something close to classical tragedy that evokes our primal fears… * The Guardian *

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