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Pirandello Plays
Pirandello Plays
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Author: Luigi Pirandello Translated by: Eric Bentley Foreword by: Albert Bermel Publisher: Northwestern University Press Series: European Drama Classics Format: Softcover # of Pages: 186 Pub. Date: 1998 ISBN-10: 0810116529 ISBN-13: 9780810116528
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About
the Plays:
Luigi Pirandello is seen as a forerunner to the Theatre of
the Absurd. He is ranked with Bertolt Brecht and Samuel
Beckett as one of the most foremost innovators in theatre
in the 20th century.
Luigi Pirandello is best known for his ability to create
farcical tragedies that pit reality against appearance in such a way
that "objective" truth is never revealed. In translations
by acclaimed playwright and translator Eric Bentley, these
versions of four of Pirandello's most celebrated plays – his
absurdist masterpiece Six Characters in Search of an Author (in
Italian: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore), Emperor Henry
(in Italian: Enrico Quarto), The Man with the Flower in His
Mouth (in Italian: L'Uomo dal Fiore in Bocca), and Right
You Are (in Italian: Così è) – are considered to be
the standards for American productions. They capture the playwright's
unique voice with remarkable precision, while at the same time
attending to the rigours of the American stage.
What people say:
"...a fascinating precursor of
the entire theatre of the absurd – the anguish over existence in
Sartre and Camus, the guerrilla warfare against ossified language and
the mass mind in Ionesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the
sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the
stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter." —
Time magazine
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was an Italian dramatist,
novelist, short story and essay writer, who was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1934. His works include many short stories
and about 40 plays.
Eric Bentley (1916-2020) was a British-born American drama
critic and translator. He received his BA at Oxford University and
PhD at Yale University. In 2006, he received an Obie award for
lifetime achievement. Throughout his long and distinguished career,
he was perhaps best known as one of the preeminent experts on Bertolt
Brecht.
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