Luigi Pirandello Three Plays (Paperback) Oxford World's Classics

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Three PlaysCondition: NewEAN: 9780199641192ISBN: 9780199641192Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/10/2014Item Height: 196mmItem Length: 130mmItem Width: 15mmTranslator: Anthony MortimerContributor: Anthony Mortimer (Translated by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain GiantsISBN-10: 0199641196Description: SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTSPirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre to foreground the tensions between art and reality. In his best known play, six characters, imagined but then abandoned by their author, intrude on the rehearsals of a provincial theatre company in an attempt to play out their family drama. In the brilliant Henry IV, a young man believes himself to be the Holy Roman Emperor; attempts to cure him of his delusion have disastrous consequences. The Mountain Giants is Pirandello's last, unfinished masterpiece, in which he moves towards the mythical, and make-believe and real life once more become entangled. The play reflects its author's growing anxiety about the function of art under a fascist regime.This new edition includes Pirandello's important Preface to Six Characters, an essential critical document for understanding the play that made him famous. Anthony Mortimer's lively and performable translations remain scrupulously faithful to the letter and spirit of the originals.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Poetry & DramaBook Series: Oxford World's ClassicsAuthor: Luigi PirandelloItem Weight: 182gRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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